ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,913, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cobra Golf Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Golf systems and methods using digital assets" was invented by Michael T. McDonnell (Carlsbad, Calif.), Bryce W. Hobbs (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Ryan L. Roach (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing benefits to owners of non-fungible tokens is provided. A minter of a non-fungible token corresponding to a digital asset can encourage or incentivize users of the non-fungible tokens to purchase additional non-fungible tokens, or perform transactions using a non-fungible token to receive benefits."
The patent was filed on Aug. 11, 2022...