ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,561, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Sport ball motion monitoring methods and systems" was invented by Aurel Coza (Portland, Ore.) and Christian Dibenedetto (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the motion of a sport ball impacted during the course of an athletic activity includes determining a motion characteristic of the sport ball for various points in time along a trajectory of the sport ball, displaying, on a display screen of an electronic display device, a video of the trajectory of the sport ball, and displaying, on the display screen, an instantaneous ...