US Patent Issued to Shoot-A-Way on Sept. 1 for "Basketball launching apparatus providing next pass indications, related systems and methods" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,064, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Shoot-A-Way Inc. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio).

"Basketball launching apparatus providing next pass indications, related systems and methods" was invented by John G. Joseph (Upper Sandusky, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Basketball launching apparatus, systems, and methods providing next pass indications are disclosed. A throwing mechanism connected to a structural framework launches basketballs toward candidate locations for a player to catch and shoot towards a basketball goal. A controller receives user input indicating a subset of the candidate locations forming a practice session and causes ...