US Patent Issued to Sort It Out Solutions on July 1 for "Automated golf ball sorting apparatus with image recognition technology" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,763, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sort It Out Solutions LLC (Dallas).

"Automated golf ball sorting apparatus with image recognition technology" was invented by Dirk Johnson (Dallas), Kelven Hua (Richardson, Texas), Trenton Burns (Richardson, Texas), Kolby Brubaker (Richardson, Texas), Frank Hartman (Richardson, Texas), Vin La (Richardson, Texas) and Jacob Garcia (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting apparatus for a set of golf balls includes a frame, a ball hopper, a plurality of sort bins, a chain driven elevator, a motor, a set of ball cups, a camera, a gravity fed sorter divider, a set of ball gates, and ...