ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,476, issued on April 7, was assigned to Volley LLC (Lancaster, Pa.).
"Automatic ball machine apparatus localization" was invented by Lukasz Masiukiewicz (York, Pa.), Stephen Titus (Herndon, Va.), Christopher Louis Decker (Papillion, Neb.), John Weinlader (Wilmette, Ill.) and Daniel Weinlader (Lititiz, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball machine system comprising a ball launching system, a memory configured to store a court model that includes dimensions of a court type in relation to a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system, an imaging system connected to the ball launching system and configured to capture a plurality of imag...