ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,069, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MYLAPS B.V. (Haarlem, Netherlands).
"Sports timing based on a camera system" was invented by Adriaan Klaas Verwoerd (Haarlem, Netherlands), Taylor Dalton Host (Haarlem, Netherlands), James Alexander Wilde (Haarlem, Netherlands), King-Hei Fung (Haarlem, Netherlands), Kai Wayne Fong (Haarlem, Netherlands), John Zin Hang Ho (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Benjamin Stuart Ross (Haarlem, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a passing time of an object passing a timing line across a sports track comprises receiving a sequence of time-stamped video frames captured by at least...