Scott B Almes

Title: Scott B. Almes: Sports Technology Inventor

Introduction

Scott B. Almes is an inventor based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, whose work focuses on technology for sports equipment fitting and performance evaluation. His patent inventions describe systems that combine user interactions, equipment selection, and data analysis to support sports experiences. Almes is associated with Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. His portfolio includes 2 patents.

Latest Patents

“Sports Fitting Bay” describes a system that guides users through interactions with an object after they select sports equipment. The system can collect data and identify images related to those interactions, then use a machine-learning model to place bounding boxes around objects in the images. It can analyze aspects of the interactions and generate a performance metric.

“Flexible Sports Bay” describes a terminal that supports equipment selection and performance assessment. It can prompt a user to perform interactions, determine characteristics of the user’s performance with selected equipment, and receive information about the equipment’s performance. The terminal can then prompt the user to make an equipment selection and record a subsequent selection.

Career Highlights

Almes’s patent work addresses the intersection of sports equipment, interactive systems, and performance data. The inventions describe ways to structure a user’s experience in a sports bay, from choosing equipment and completing activities to evaluating results.

Collaborations

Almes is associated with Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. His listed coworker is Rob Brown.

Conclusion

Scott B. Almes’s patents describe technology for making sports equipment fitting and performance evaluation more interactive and data-informed.