ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,435, issued on Sept. 30, 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.), Joe Brian Doran (Round Rock, Texas), Try Ty (Chicago), Michael D. Banach (Ellicott City, Md.) 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 det...