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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Allan M Kirson, Highland Park, IL (US);
Gerald M Crimmins, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F / ; G04F / ; G04B / ; G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
368-2 ; 368109 ; 368110 ; 368113 ; 3403 / ;
Abstract
An athletic training device includes a main control unit coupled to one or more finish line units via a communication link. The main control unit arranged to provide a pre-race start signal and a race start signal simulating an actual race event starting condition. The main control unit further arranged to time the race events, to determine reaction times and to measure weather and/or atmospheric conditions and to store all these as training statistics.