US Patent Issued to MasterCraft Boat on March 17 for "System and method for identifying when a water-sports participant has fallen" (Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,954, issued on March 17, was assigned to MasterCraft Boat Co. LLC (Vonore, Tenn.).

"System and method for identifying when a water-sports participant has fallen" was invented by Michael J. Uggeri (Knoxville, Tenn.), David F. Ekern (Knoxville, Tenn.), Chad A. Lynema (Knoxville, Tenn.), Zach C. Gordon (Vonore, Tenn.), Colin J. Schweigert (Whitehall, Mich.) and Abhijeet Vaidya (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boat, boat systems, and methods to determine when a water-sports participant has fallen. The boat may include an image sensor and an image processor communicatively coupled to the image sensor. The image sensor is ...