ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,189, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Apparatus, systems, and methods for gathering and processing biometric and biomechanical data" was invented by Lee Norman Cusey (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Jay Allen Shears (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Harold Dan Stirling (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for measuring and analyzing movements of a body and for communicating information related to such body movements over a network. In certain embodiments, a system gathers biometric and biomechanical data relating to positions, orientations, and movements of...