US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for time-based athletic activity measurement and display" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,053, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for time-based athletic activity measurement and display" was invented by James Meschter (Portland, Ore.), James Molyneux (Portland, Ore.) and Aaron B. Weast (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athl...