ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,132, issued on May 12, was assigned to Airborne Athletics Inc. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Basketball training system" was invented by Douglas B. Campbell (Loretto, Minn.), Jeffrey J. Campbell (Lonsdale, Minn.) and Adam T. Pan (Elko New Market, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basketball training system includes a user interface and a ball delivery machine for delivering basketballs to selected ball delivery locations. The user interface presents a visual representation of a portion of a basketball court and a graphical ball delivery machine icon that is user movable to modify a location of the graphical ball delivery machine icon wi...