US Patent Issued to TOCA Football on June 2 for "Detection of the speed of an object passing through a goal plane" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,604, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOCA Football Inc. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Detection of the speed of an object passing through a goal plane" was invented by Edward J. Lewis (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Wayne Morton Rapp (Irvine, Calif.) and Steven Eannarino (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of detecting a through-beam between first and second sensors of a first sensor pair, the first sensor being located at a first goal post of a goal apparatus, the second sensor being located at a second goal post of the goal apparatus, wherein the first goal post and t...