ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,448, issued on June 2, was assigned to SURGE MOTION INC. (Alhambra, Calif.).

"Method and system for assessing human movements" was invented by Jeffrey Tai Kin Cheung (Fremont, Calif.), Derek T. Cheung (San Mateo, Calif.), Vicky L Cheung (Portland, Ore.) and Gary N. Jin (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a system for analyzing a motion. During operation, the system obtains acceleration data associated with the motion. The acceleration data can include three components corresponding to three spatially orthogonal directions. For each orthogonal direction, the system computes an amount of oscillatory en...