ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,089, issued on June 16.

"Covert sports communication system" was invented by John Andrew Hankins (Doylestown, Pa.) and Craig Anthony Filicetti (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baseball pitch selection communication system has a transmitter and a body-worn visual receiver. The transmitter includes a transmitter unit configured to transmit wireless signals, a first microcontroller and a plurality of user actuatable input elements. The first microcontroller is configured to provide the transmitter unit with a selection signal to wirelessly transmit in accordance with actuation of the user actuatable input elements, th...