ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,416, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sportsbox.ai Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Object fitting using quantitative biomechanical-based analysis" was invented by Jeehae Lee (San Francisco), Samuel Menaker (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michael Rye Kennewick Sr. (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for object fitting recommendations using a biomechanical analysis of observed actions. Physical quantities of biomechanical actions can be measured from the observations, and the system can analyze these values, compare them to target or optimal values, and use the observations and known biomechanical capab...