US Patent Issued to Volley on June 30 for "Automatic ball machine apparatus utilizing player identification and player tracking" (Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,767, issued on June 30, was assigned to Volley LLC (Lancaster, Pa.).

"Automatic ball machine apparatus utilizing player identification and player tracking" was invented by Lukasz Masiukiewicz (York, Pa.), Christopher Decker (Papillion, Neb.), Stephen Titus (Herndon, Va.), John Weinlader (Wilmette, Ill.) and Daniel Weinlader (Lititiz, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball machine comprising an imaging system to capture image data and a processor configured to, for a frame of the image data, analyze the image data using a neural network to detect a plurality of persons, determine a coordinate position on a playing surface of each o...