ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,091, issued on April 1.
"Baseball pitch selection communication system" was invented by John Andrew Hankins (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Craig Anthony Filicetti (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for communicating pitch selections wirelessly from a wireless transmitter has a coded signal generator that generates coded signals in accordance with selected pitch types. A receiver decodes the received coded signals, selects an audio file based on the received coded signal and generates an audio signal announcing the selected pitch type based on the transmitted selected pitch type in accordance with the received coded si...