US 12,303,759 B1
Basketball launching device with player height compensation
John G. Joseph, Upper Sandusky, OH (US)
Assigned to Shoot-A-Way, Inc., Upper Sandusky, OH (US)
Filed by Shoot-A-Way, Inc., Upper Sandusky, OH (US)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/228,387.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/394,139, filed on Aug. 1, 2022.
Int. Cl. A63B 69/00 (2006.01); A63B 69/40 (2006.01); A63B 71/00 (2006.01); A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 69/0071 (2013.01) [A63B 69/408 (2013.01); A63B 71/0622 (2013.01); A63B 71/0009 (2013.01); A63B 2071/0018 (2013.01); A63B 2071/0675 (2013.01); A63B 2214/00 (2020.08); A63B 2225/093 (2013.01); A63B 2225/096 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A basketball launching system which compensates for player height, said basketball launching system comprising:
a user interface;
a launching mechanism for launching basketballs;
a controller in electronic communication with the user interface and the launching mechanism, said controller comprising one or more non-transitory electronic storage devices comprising a database of player heights, each associated with a respective one of a plurality of levels of force or speed, and software instructions, which when executed, configure one or more processors of the controller to:
cause a player information prompt to be generated at the user interface;
receive data from the user interface in response to the player information prompt, where said data comprises an indication of player height;
automatically and electronically query the database with the indicated player height to return a respective one of the plurality of levels of force or speed (“level of force or speed”); and
command the launching mechanism to launch the basketballs with the level of force or speed such that the level of force or speed is adjustably selected based, at least in part, on the indicated player height.