ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,887, issued on March 11, was assigned to Slyde Analytics LLC (Houston).
"Method and apparatus for predicting a race time" was invented by Cyrille Gindre (Leysin, Switzerland), Frederic Lamon (Corin-de-la-Crete, Switzerland), Christophe Ramstein (Haut-Nendaz, Switzerland) and Patrick Flaction (Chandolin-Pres-Saviese, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for optimizing an athlete's performance during a race using a wearable device. The method involves determining the athlete's performance level from past races or trainings, and collecting race data through a wearable sensor. This data helps retrieve a tailore...