ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,282, issued on July 8, was assigned to Full-Swing Golf Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Golf ball tracking system and methods" was invented by John DeLeon (Carlsbad, Calif.), Daniel Weitzner (Concord, Canada) and Zachary Carofanello (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball tracking system identifies a first pixel at which a golf ball is located in a first image frame and a second pixel at which the golf ball is located in a second image frame. The system may determine that the first pixel represents a location where the golf ball impacts the golf surface based at least in part on a difference in location between the first ...