US Patent Issued to DUNCAN YO-YO GO on Oct. 7 for "Connected yo-yo" (Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,162, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DUNCAN YO-YO GO LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Connected yo-yo" was invented by Bryan Paul Jardin (Champions Gate, Fla.), Jason C. Sauey (Madison, Wis.), James M. Petras (Euclid, Ohio), Matthew Banach (Gurnee, Ill.) and Richard Philip Zavracky (Reminderville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A yo-yo has at least one sensor configured to measure a parameter related to movement of the yo-yo, a transmitter configured to transmit the measured parameter to the computing device. A server is configured to determine a trick performed with the yo-yo based on the measured parameter, and to communicate the det...