US Patent Issued to John A. Dickey on Oct. 21 for "Golf putting green with controllable surface contour" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,389, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to John A. Dickey (Caledonia, Ill.).

"Golf putting green with controllable surface contour" was invented by John A. Dickey (Caledonia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface having a controllable contour. A plurality of closely-spaced panels form the surface. A post actuator is disposed beneath each panel vertex such that application of a force to a post actuator causes the post actuator to vertically extend and thereby a region of a panel above the post actuator to move upwardly. Release of a force on a post actuator causes the post actuator to contract vertically and permit a region of th...