US Patent Issued to TOCA Football on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for a ball-throwing machine providing launch wheel motor feedback" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,310, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOCA Football Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a ball-throwing machine providing launch wheel motor feedback" was invented by Wayne Morton Rapp (Irvine, Calif.), Lindon Alford Baker (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Richard Alan Gros (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) and Daniel Taylor Murphy (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball-throwing machine is disclosed that includes one or more launch wheels configured to impart motion to one or more balls, a wheel motor coupled to each of the one or more launch wheels, a first encoder coupled to a first wheel motor coupled to a first launch w...