ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,220, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PGA TOUR Enterprises LLC (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).
"Golf play outcome simulation modeling system" was invented by Michael Vitti (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Jacqueline Shelly (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Joshua Oskwarek (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An golf tournament simulation method may include generating predicted hole scores for each hole of each round of a golf tournament. Historical shot data corresponding to a historical occurrence of one or more hole events may be utilized as weight to generate predicted outcomes of hole events for each hole. A score probabili...