US Patent Issued to Extreme18 on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for providing recreational assistance" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,455, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Extreme18 LLC (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for providing recreational assistance" was invented by John L. Thompson Jr. (Coto de Caza, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recreational assistant device including a frame as well as a navigation system module. The recreational assistant device additionally incudes a microphone, an output system, and at least one processor each connected to the frame. The microphone is configured to receive an aural command as input from a user requesting a distance between the portable assistance device and an other specified location. The output syste...