ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,970, issued on June 10, was assigned to Shooter's Touch LLC (Weston, Mass.).
"Basketball performance monitoring system" was invented by Steven J. Gordon (Weston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basketball performance monitoring system sensor including at least one sensor proximate a basketball goal having a backboard, a rim coupled to the backboard, and a net having strings coupled to the rim; the at least one sensor configured to determine shot information, the shot information comprising both an impact of a basketball with at least one of the backboard and the rim, and a shot passing through the rim; a local microprocessor c...