ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,377, issued on Sept. 9.
"System and method for synchronized rowing" was invented by Sean Huang Schwartz (Ashburn, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to methods for synchronizing rowers in rowing. A synchronization timing instruction is generated based on a stroke rate as a stroke cycle with multiple timings for corresponding events to occur and used to facilitate synchronization across multiple rowers on the events in each stroke cycle based on the timings in the instruction. For each of the events and a timing specified in the instruction, an actual timing for the event related to each rower is received...