US Patent Issued to PGA TOUR Enterprises on Nov. 4 for "System and method for estimating final resting position of golf balls" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,842, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PGA TOUR Enterprises LLC (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

"System and method for estimating final resting position of golf balls" was invented by Barry Walker (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Jeremy Craven (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Jonas Henrik Gredenhag (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Walter Kenneth Lovell (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Kevin Kerr (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Spencer Border (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting a resting position of a golf ball may use ball tracking sensor data to identify an impact location of the ball. Modeling of ball movement following...