ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,492, issued on Dec. 30.

"Cheerleading training system" was invented by Christopher Wang (Katy, Texas), James Vidal Volpi (Houston), Audrey Faye Gutierrez (Cypress, Texas) and Jeremiah Randle (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cheerleading training system. The cheerleading training system uses sensors implemented on training gloves to measure pressures imposed on cheerleaders' hands, as well as the acceleration of the cheerleaders' hands. Each training glove may have a microprocessor that contains target measurements that are compared to the pressure and acceleration measurements obtained by...