ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,218, issued on March 18, was assigned to Skier's Choice Inc. (Maryville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods of recommending changes to wakeboat wake performance" was invented by Richard Lawrence Hartman (Twin Lakes, Idaho) and Matthew Douglas Brown (Friendsville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wakeboat that during operation creates a wake, the performance level of the wake varying depending upon the distribution of mass of and aboard the wakeboat, the wakeboat comprising: a hull; processing circuitry supported by the hull; a sensor configured to measure at least one parameter of the wakeboat, the sensor providing data to the proce...