US Patent Issued to SportsMEDIA Technology on July 8 for "Molded hockey puck with electronic signal transmitter core" (North Carolina, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,564, issued on July 8, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Molded hockey puck with electronic signal transmitter core" was invented by Gerard J. Hall (Durham, N.C.), Kirk Brown (Hume, Va.), Kent Mason (San Jose, Calif.), Richard H. Cavallaro (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jim Doeden (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hockey puck is disclosed including an internal signal transmitter enabling instantaneous identification of its position as it moves around. The puck includes two molded subcomponents, which encapsulate the signal transmitter. The signal transmitter includes driver electronics and a...