ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,674, issued on July 14, was assigned to CHIP'd Inc. (Murrieta, Calif.).

"Communications and power hub for a sporting object" was invented by Joshua L. Marris (Murrieta, Calif.), Anil K. Agarwal (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.), Brandon Pollack (Lake Forest, Calif.) and David Hester (Murrieta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a communications and power hub for a sporting object are provided. A power hub includes sensors configured to track one or more parameters corresponding to the sports object, and communications circuitry configured to transmit information to and receive information from devices external...