US Patent Issued to STATS on May 20 for "Field rating and course adjusted strokes gained for global golf analysis" (North Carolina, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,765, issued on May 20, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Field rating and course adjusted strokes gained for global golf analysis" was invented by Kyle Cunningham-Rhoads (Durham, N.C.), Kevin Chroust (Chicago) and Taylor Bechtold (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system retrieves historical hole-by-hole data for a plurality of holes for plurality of golf tournaments for a plurality of players. The historical hole-by-hole data includes a yardage of each hole and a par associated with each hole. The computing system clusters the plurality of holes into a plurality of clusters of hole types. The computing system ge...