US Patent Issued on June 17 for "System and method for identifying a brand worn by a person in a sporting event" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,808, issued on June 17.

"System and method for identifying a brand worn by a person in a sporting event" was invented by Todd Martin (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying and timing an athlete during a timed sporting event. The athlete is timed using image recognition technology in which one or more images of the athlete taken during the sporting event by a camera (106a, 106b, or 106c) is time-stamped to generate a finish time for the athlete. The athlete is identified by comparing one of the images taken during the sporting event with a profile image of the athlete."

The patent was filed on April 24...