ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,705, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PGA Tour Enterprises LLC (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

"Platform to manipulate golf data to enable creation of broadcast production graphics" was invented by Jonathan Fegan (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Morgan Johnson (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Alex Turnbull (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Austin Bratton (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Shannon Slater (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Luis Rivera (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform including a modification module and an access module may receive live or near real-time event-related data from a data source. The modification module ma...