US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Aug. 4 for "Impact detection device and impact detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,534, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Impact detection device and impact detection method" was invented by Takehiko Iizuka (Kyoto, Japan), Nobuyuki Nozawa (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoshige Furuhi (Kyoto, Japan), Koji Kawano (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Makino (Kyoto, Japan) and Kenta Ago (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact detection device includes a sensor that is attached to sports equipment including a columnar portion and a hitting portion connected to the columnar portion and is attached not at the hitting portion but at the columnar portion, and t...