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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2020
Envelope Sports, Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Survice Engineering Company, Belcamp, MD (US);
Pat Hoderny, Atlanta, GA (US);
Joey Roberts, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Chris Hoderny, McKees Rocks, PA (US);
Paul Aubrey Troth, Aldie, VA (US);
Joseph Murphy, Palos Verdes Estates, CA (US);
Shawn Thomas Recker, Bel Air, MD (US);
Mark Thomas Butkiewicz, North East, MD (US);
Joel Henry Witman, Essex, MD (US);
Robert Eric Baltrusch, Newark, DE (US);
Envelope Sports, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
SURVICE Engineering Company, Belcamp, MD (US);
Abstract
A ground traversing, electrically driven drone travels along a programmed path that corresponds to pass catcher's travel path during a play, matching the pass catcher's speed and run cuts. The play is wirelessly communicated to the drone by a handheld electronic device located remote of the drone. A target is located on the drone so that a quarterback can throw a football at the target in order to refine the quarterback's timing and accuracy for the play. Sensors located remote of the drone track both the football's and quarterback's speed and travel trajectories so that such data can be collected, along with the drone's travel path, and transmitted to the computer and eventually fed into 3-D reconstruction software for analysis by the quarterback and coaching staff. The target rotates so that the target either faces in a fixed direction or constantly faces the quarterback during execution of drone's maneuvers.