ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,058, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Retail store motion sensor methods" was invented by Christian Dibenedetto (North Plains, Ore.), Amy Jones Vaterlaus (Portland, Ore.), Ben Valenti (Portland, Ore.) and Aurel Coza (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a recommendation to an individual about an article of footwear includes receiving data about the individual from a sensor module associated with the individual during a first athletic activity engaged in by the individual, determining a first characteristic about the individual's gait based on the data related to ...