ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,337, issued on Aug. 5.

"Athletic performance analysis and training system and method" was invented by Scott Deans (Houston), Luo Wang (Sugar Land, Texas) and James McNaney (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of analyzing and training athletic performance implemented on one or more processors and associated memory includes the steps of capturing a series of images of an individual performing an isolated athletic action; recognizing from said series of images of said isolated athletic action performed; identifying input training markers of said isolated athletic action in said series of images; smoothin...