US Patent Issued to Weather Applied Metrics on Dec. 2 for "System and method for using weather applied metrics for predicting the flight of a football" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,311, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Weather Applied Metrics Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"System and method for using weather applied metrics for predicting the flight of a football" was invented by Douglas Milton Sinton (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Amirault Farley (Lexington, S.C.) and Kenneth Martin Arneson (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for using weather applied metrics for determining the impact of weather conditions on the flight of a football at an outside football venue. Historical and current data for weather parameters, including wind, air pressure, humidity, temperature, and rain, are obtai...