ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,842, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Race Result AG (Pfinztal, Germany).
"Decoder for a race timing system" was invented by Manuel Fessler (Neuenburg, Germany), Nikias Klohr (Stutensee, Germany) and Martha Augsburger (Pfinztal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a decoder (18) for a race timing system (16), comprising: a reader interface (24) for receiving detections of sports timing transponders (14) passing an antenna (106); a cable connection interface (26) for connecting a network cable and/or a computer interface cable; a user interface (28) for providing configuration feedback to a user; ...