ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,771, issued on Feb. 17.
"Golf shot tracking system" was invented by James W. Meadows (Madison, Miss.), Richard L. Root (Ridgeland, Miss.) and Richard C. Edmonson (Ridgeland, Miss.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf tracking system including a tag coupled to a golf club. The tag includes a plurality of sensors, each which output a signal based on a detected movement of the golf club, a microcontroller that compares each of the plurality of sensor outputs to stored reference sensor output values, and a transceiver that transmits data corresponding to the sensor outputs to a device remote from the tag based on the comparison performe...