US Patent Issued to Rapsodo on July 21 for "Determination of spin rate and spin axis of a ball in flight" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,898, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rapsodo Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Determination of spin rate and spin axis of a ball in flight" was invented by Dejiang Xu (Singapore), Botan Yildirim (Singapore), Evgeny Lipunov (Singapore), Aditya Vishwanath (Singapore) and Batuhan Okur (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for determining the spin rate and the spin axis of a ball in flight. In some embodiments, a method comprises: capturing, with an image sensor, a time series of images of a ball in flight and corresponding image capture times; inputting, with at least one processor, the image frames and the image...