ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,004, issued on April 7, was assigned to Riddell Inc. (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"Systems and methods for monitoring a physiological parameter of persons engaged in physical activity" was invented by Jeffrey J. Chu (Quechee, Vt.), Richard M. Greenwald (Norwich, Vt.) and Jonathan G. Beckwith (Cornish, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides system and method for monitoring of at least one physiological parameter of a person engaged in a physical activity, for example, an impact received by a player engaged in a contact sport such as football. The system includes a monitoring unit that actively monitors the physiol...