ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,134, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Systems and methods for a configurable training system" was invented by Byungseok Yoo (Olney, Md.), Donovan Pines (Clarksville, Md.) and Russell Canouse (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media for a configurable training system are provided. The configurable training system can include a controller and one or more configurable training devices. The configurable training device can include a housing, a cover coupled to a front surface of the housing, a sensor located within the housing to detect an impact...