ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,087, issued on June 16.
"Movement-examination system for electronically determining strike-zone location" was invented by Ronald J. Meetin (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one designated physical body feature (150) of a batter (B) situated near a strike zone (56) is timewise variably spaced vertically apart from a reference situs (152). The zone has lower and upper boundaries (60 and 62) at locations dependent on how far each body feature is vertically spaced apart from the situs. A batter simulation has a simulated feature for each body feature A boundary determiner (160) determines one of multiple pote...