ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,226, issued on May 13, was assigned to Topgolf International Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and system utilizing a golf shot API proxy" was invented by Ethan D. Stroud (Liberty Hill, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing shot tracking data to a client device is disclosed herein. The system includes multiple golf ball tracking sensors positioned at multiple golf driving ranges, multiple shot application programming interfaces (API), and a shot API proxy. Each of the shot APIs is configured to receive shot data from each of the golf ball tracking sensors at a corresponding golf driving range venue such as a TOP...