ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,162, issued on Sept. 23.
"Golf ball return system and method" was invented by Victor Leon (Lomita, Calif.), Ian Osborne (Gardena, Calif.) and George Foster (Placerville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system for returning a golf ball to a golfer playing simulated golf or hitting a golf ball towards any vertical surface or hitting it into a net or such, the system including a ball catcher tray assembly adapted to receive a golf ball after the golfer has hit the ball against an impact surface, the ball catcher tray optionally including ball catcher tray sections connected toge...