ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,623, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Helios Sports Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).
"Intelligent sports equipment systems and methods" was invented by William G. Near (Portsmouth, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent sports equipment system and method for processing data as a result of different types of events associated with a puck or ball and generally another piece of sports equipment. The information associated with each type of event can include associating player information with the processed data. In one example a smart hockey puck has embedded electronics for sensing motion across a plurality of axes, a hockey stic...