ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,680, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC (Exeter, N.H.).

"Equipment recommendation systems and methods" was invented by Yannick Paquette (Blainville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for recommending an item of equipment, which comprises: gathering sensed data from a sensor; processing the sensed data in accordance with a biomechanical protocol to determine at least one performance indicator associated with a subject's execution of the biomechanical protocol; and determining at least one recommended feature of an item of equipment based at least in part on the at least one performanc...