ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,335, issued on Aug. 5.
"Practice aid system" was invented by Zevon McCarter (Temple Terrace, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A practice aid system includes: a practice aid device; a hoop sensor system, including first and second pairs of an optical transmitter and receiver, which are mountable on a rim of a basketball hoop; an intelligent ball, including an inflatable ball body, a ball control unit, a ball light source, and a ball motion and location sensor; an intelligent shoe, including a shoe body, a shoe control unit, a shoe motion and location sensor, a vibrator, and a shoe light source."
The patent was filed on March 6, 202...