US Patent Issued to adidas on July 28 for "Wearable athletic activity monitoring systems" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,811, issued on July 28, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Wearable athletic activity monitoring systems" was invented by Aurel Coza (Portland, Ore.), Christian Dibenedetto (North Plains, Ore.) and Ian Michael Munson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment and sensor system for determining a posture of an individual, the garment and sensor system including a garment, a retention element coupled to the garment, and a sensor module configured to be coupled to the retention element, the sensor module including a sensor configured to generate orientation data and a transceiver configured to transmit th...