ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,836, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PEBBLE LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Systems and methods for tracking and reporting climbing progress" was invented by Sundev R. Lohr (Salt Lake City) and Dustin G. Buckthal (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking a user's progress through a climb. The system including a transmitter that wirelessly transmits a user identification (user ID), a scanning device that receives the wirelessly transmitted user ID and communicates climb data comprising the user ID and a route climb identifier to at least one server device comprising instructions to cause the least one server devic...