ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,378, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Run recording device, run recording system, and run recording method" was invented by Hajime Kumami (Kobe, Japan), Koji Saito (Kobe, Japan), Takehiro Tagawa (Kobe, Japan), Yasuhiro Nomura (Kobe, Japan) and Nao Hirakawa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position acquirer acquires position information of a runner running with a certain time set to the starting point of a running time. An environment acquirer acquires environment information indicating running environment of the runner. An information storage unit stores acquired position information togethe...