ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,651, issued on April 29, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Recommended running pace calculation system and recommended running pace calculation method" was invented by Ryota Shinayama (Kobe, Japan), Yasuhiro Nomura (Kobe, Japan), Takehiro Tagawa (Kobe, Japan), Hiroto Mori (Kobe, Japan) and Nao Hirakawa (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommended running pace calculation system and the like capable of calculating a recommended running pace that is recommended to a runner to be evaluated in a distance running. A recommended running pace calculation system according to the present invention includes a correlation ...