ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,099, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TourBuilt LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for measuring and analyzing the motion of a swing and matching the motion of a swing to optimized swing equipment" was invented by Michael Bentley (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brett Juhas (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for analyzing the swing motion of sporting equipment, for example, a golf club, including at least one or more inertial acceleration sensors, one or more gyrometric sensors, a data acquiring unit, a core micro-controller, and a Bluetooth radio. The motion detecting unit detects at least one motion of th...