US Patent Issued to SportsMEDIA Technology on May 6 for "Molded hockey puck with electronic signal transmitter core" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,728, issued on May 6, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Molded hockey puck with electronic signal transmitter core" was invented by 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 hockey puck includes two molded subcomponents, which encapsulate the signal transmitter. The signal transmitter includes driver electronics and a number of signal transmitters which together ge...