US Patent Issued to Volley on Oct. 27 for "Automatic ball machine apparatus utilizing shot identification and analysis" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,614, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Volley LLC (Lancaster, Pa.).

"Automatic ball machine apparatus utilizing shot identification and analysis" was invented by Stephen Titus (Herndon, Va.), Lukasz Masiukiewicz (York, Pa.), 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 comprising an imaging system attached to the ball machine and configured to capture image data of a court, a ball launching system configured to launch a ball to a user and a processor. The processor configured to initiate a workout routine that includes lau...