ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,101, issued on Oct. 7.
"Baseball pitch tagging for ball tracking devices" 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 ball flight management system includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising an indication of an intended pitch type selected from among a plurality of intended pitch types, one or more sensors configured to measure one or more ball flight parameters of a pitched ball and output one or more measured ball flight parameters, and a recording unit in communication with the one or more sensors and the receiver,...