ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,158, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Daddy Sports Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Golf simulator" was invented by Daniel Puumalainen (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Eric Cherny (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting ball flight of a golf ball includes analyzing image data of a divot region including a ball location marker resulting from a swing of a golf club by a subject. A prediction of ball flight of a golf ball if positioned on the ball location marker during the swing is generated based at least partly on the analysis of the image data of the divot region. The prediction may be generated without analysis of ...