US Patent Issued to BIOMECHANICS CONSULTING AND RESEARCH on April 14 for "Automated turf testing apparatus and system for using same" (Virginia, Tennessee, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,667, issued on April 14, was assigned to BIOMECHANICS CONSULTING AND RESEARCH LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Automated turf testing apparatus and system for using same" was invented by Jeff Crandall (Charlottesville, Va.), Edward Meade Spratley (Charlottesville, Va.), Philipe Aldahir (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Zack Sutton (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Steven Sutton (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for inspection of at least one of grass, artificial turf, infill, or dirt, on a surface, using optical photographic images from a camera and three-dimensional ("3D") depth scans using the camera and one or m...