ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,756, issued on Feb. 17.
"Communication system" was invented by David Jolliffe (Watford, Great Britain) and Mark Miller (Watford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To communicate with a magnetometer (82) within a golf ball (20) used in a golf facility, an electromagnetic coil (30) is configured to supply pulsed signals to the magnetometer. A plurality of coils (30) are provided at different locations around the golf facility, and the pulsed signals are preferably coded so that the location of the golf ball is known."
The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2021, under Application No. 18/025,765.
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