Patents Examined by Nini F. Legesse
  • Patent number: 12144481
    Abstract: A reconfigurable three-dimensional lattice in and on which detergent solutions and other liquid films may be deposited and supported, wherein the lattice may be configured and reconfigured for use, cleaning, and storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: S&RINNOVATIVE CONCEPTS, LLC
    Inventors: Yehoshua Grasiani, Ron Weizman
  • Patent number: 12138514
    Abstract: An adjustable height golf tee system having a tee and an anchor is discussed. The tee is height-adjustable relative to the anchor. A first anchor includes a cap, a stem, and a tip. The stem can be threaded internally, externally, or a combination thereof. A second anchor includes a base, a first stem, a cap, and a second stem as well as optional spacers. The stems can be threaded internally. Both the first and second anchors can be composed multiple pieces (e.g., a detachable cap, a detachable stem, or a detachable portion thereof) to provide access to an inner cavity of the respective stems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Practice Perfect Golf Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: John Chavez
  • Patent number: 12138521
    Abstract: The golf putting sight includes a groove support, a first hinge; and a flat plate support. One side of the groove support is rotatably connected to the flat plate support through the first hinge. A first side of the flat plate support is rotatably connected to a base through a second hinge. A mirror plate is mounted in the groove support. Across-shaped aiming line is arranged on one side of the mirror plate. One side of the flat plate support defines a calibrating hole. A correcting line is on an upper surface of the base. When in use, through the first hinge and the second hinge, the groove support, the flat plate support, and the base are convenient to form a triangular shape. The mirror plate is aligned with a hole or a target, and a aiming line on a golf ball is aligned with the cross-shaped aiming line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Weiyu Chen
  • Patent number: 12138561
    Abstract: A modular hinge and clip system that enhances a child's play and creates the ability to construct and build from the child's imagination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Schott
  • Patent number: 12138518
    Abstract: The disclosure provides embodiments of tackling devices and methods of use thereof that are useful for training safer techniques of tackling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Marty Gilman, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil F. Gilman
  • Patent number: 12138515
    Abstract: A golf flagstick assembly includes a ferrule, a first flagstick portion, a second flagstick portion and a connector fitting. The first flagstick portion has a first cross-sectional dimension. The second flagstick portion is separate from the first flagstick portion and has a second cross-sectional dimension. The second flagstick portion is oriented such that an end of the second flagstick portion is disposed toward an end of the first flagstick portion. The connector fitting extends between and operatively connect the first and second flagstick portions. The connector fitting has a fitting cross-sectional dimension that is less than the first cross-sectional dimension of the first flagstick portion and less than the second cross-sectional dimension of the second flagstick portion. Connector fittings and methods of assembly are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Craig A. Lundin
  • Patent number: 12134018
    Abstract: A baseball grip training device is provided for use with a baseball bat, comprising a base adapted to contact a bat grip, wherein the base includes one or more shaped surfaces adapted to receive one or more of an index finger and a middle finger of a user; a retaining member extending from the base shaped to surround one or more of the index finger and the middle finger of the user; and a bat contacting surface adapted to contact the bat grip, wherein the bat contacting surface and the shaped surfaces are separated by a predetermined distance to lift the index finger and the middle finger of the user away from the bat grip sufficient to place greater reliance on the remaining fingers to hold the bat grip during a swing of the bat. The device is preferably constructed from a resilient material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Rip Grip Pro, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Arthur Sullivan, III, Andrew Rand Avans
  • Patent number: 12121792
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a system for monitoring a swing is provided that includes (1) a swing measurement device adapted to couple to a swinging object and to output a signal indicative of a characteristic of the swinging object; (2) a wireless transmitter coupled to the swing measurement device and adapted to wirelessly transmit the signal output by the swing measurement device; and (3) a wireless device adapted to receive the wirelessly transmitted signal and to provide information regarding the swinging object based on the received signal. The wireless device is a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant (PDA). Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Dugan Patents, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Dugan
  • Patent number: 12121789
    Abstract: A golf swing training device attachable to a golfer's wrist. A rigid hand stop prevents the golfer's hand from bending beyond a pre-established distance or angle during a golf backswing. The rigid hand stop is configured and positioned to not interfere with, or restrict, the golfer's address of the golf ball or the early part of the backswing. The rigid hand stop allows desired movement of, and prevents undesired movement of, the golfer's rear hand (i.e., right hand for right-handed golfers and left hand for left-handed golfers) as the golfer moves from ball address through the backswing to the downswing to the impact position and finally the follow through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: David Woods
  • Patent number: 12115427
    Abstract: A basketball dribbling training system for training a user to dribble a basketball while in motion includes a treadmill including a frame having a side edge, wherein a continuous belt is positioned on the frame. A platform has a top surface, and a vertical support is attached to and extends downwardly from the platform. The vertical support positions the platform above an upper surface of the frame, wherein the platform extends over the frame adjacent to the side edge. A connector releasably couples the vertical support to the treadmill to retain the vertical support in abutment with the treadmill such that the platform extends over the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventor: Yahya El-Amin
  • Patent number: 12109475
    Abstract: A golf training aid is disclosed for use with alignment sticks. The golf training aid includes an elongate member with a longitudinal axis and a first and second set of holes. The first set of holes is space apart farther than the second set. The elongate ember also has a target alignment hole positioned in between the first and second set of holes. All the holes are constructed to receive and hold an alignment stick. The golf training aid has least two configurations: a wide hitting box configuration and a narrow box configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Tour Aim Golf LLC
    Inventor: Noah Wolf
  • Patent number: 12109478
    Abstract: An electronic tracking system for assisting a user in determining distances to landmarks and objects in a sporting environment includes a user tracking system for determining the location of a user, a heads up display for displaying information to the user, and a processor operable to communicate with the user tracking system and the heads up display. The heads up display is designed to be worn on the user's head, and to display an image within the user's field of view. The processor is programmed to determine a distance between the user's determined location and an object or a landmark on. This information is displayed via the heads up display as a numeric representation of the determined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Leech
  • Patent number: 12102933
    Abstract: A miniature track assembly having a plurality of central track supports, first track support spacers, and first and second flexible track runners is described. Each track support has a body portion and an extended portion attached to the body portion, the extended portion having a first connection node and a second connection node for detachable connection with the flexible track runners. The first track support spacer is configured to attach to at least one of either a central track support from the plurality of central track supports, or a second track support spacer. The first and second flexible track runners are configured to attach to the connection nodes of the extended portion of each of the plurality of central track supports. The components provide unique design and construction advantages due to the flexible track runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Adam Reed Tucker
  • Patent number: 12102934
    Abstract: A religious speaking teddy bear including a stuffed animal assembly, an attachment assembly and an electronic assembly. The stuffed animal assembly includes a movable mouth. The movable mouth moves to emulate speaking. The attachment assembly includes attachments to illustrate the ten commandments. The attachments can be attached to the stuffed animal assembly. The electronic assembly includes buttons and a speaker. The buttons can be depressed to actuate the speaker to recite the ten commandments and the movable mouth to emulate speaking. The electronic assembly is inside the stuffed animal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Warren Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12097404
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for custom fitting golf clubs to golfers using analysis of golf swing mechanics and data obtained from the golfer being fitted in addition to extrinsic data correlations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher L. Wycoff
  • Patent number: 12090382
    Abstract: A swing lag training device having a collar for reversible attachment to a shaft near a golf club head; an arm band for attachment above an elbow of an arm of a user; a spooling device attached to the arm band with a cord that connects the spooling device to an attachment port near the golf club head; the spooling device adapted to: 1) retract cord into the spooling device during a back swing; and 2) provide a set of audible sounds as cord is unwound as the golf club head is moved in a forward swing so that a user can train to concentrate the set of audible sounds in a late portion of in the forward swing and thus maintain swing lag during an early portion of the forward swing. The training device can be adapted for training to swing other implements beyond golf clubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GOINS ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventor: Donnie Lee Goins
  • Patent number: 12090383
    Abstract: A golf swing training device for training a user to aim a golf swing in the desired direction includes a resiliently deformable body having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a perimeter surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface is configured to support the body on a support surface, and the body is elongated along a horizontal central longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end. The body is symmetrical about a vertical central plane. There is a divot penetrating the top surface adjacent the first end coupled to a compactable, resiliently deformable ball. The body is constructed of a low-density material and is configured to abruptly decelerate when moving through a quantity of air due to an air resistance force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Weventz Valery
  • Patent number: 12083403
    Abstract: A golf club swing arc impact location training system that helps the user to determine the ideal deepest point of his or her swing in relation to the location of the ball being hit. A rigid rectangular frame is topped by an elastic panel that can be deformed when the user swings and hits a golf ball attached to a tether assembly fixed to the edge of the rectangular frame. An array of photodiodes mounted on the inner surface of the frame senses the location of the depressed elastic panel as the ball is hit and sends the results to a digital display mounted on the top surface of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Palmgren
  • Patent number: 12076631
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a golf putting training aid, comprising: a track; a clamp configured to attach to a putter grip; an extension from the clamp configured to run along the track; and one or more supports for the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Guido Vidotto
  • Patent number: 12076616
    Abstract: A sports swing tracking system that has at least one computer processor, a camera system with a digital image sensor, the camera system operating at or greater than sixty frames per second at an exposure rate faster than one one-thousandth of a second. The sports swing tracking system also includes a distance calculating system designed to calculate the distance to an object of known size determined by a pixel array corresponding to the equivalent dimensions of the imaged object. The sports swing tracking system also includes a body frame pose estimator system designed to calculate the distance between each of thirteen or more body frame points and a motion mapping system designed to calculate changes in the three-dimensional location and attitude of at least one or more of the thirteen or more body frame points, an at least one ball point, and two or more points representing a sports instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Glen Yarbrough