ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,535, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GOLFZON Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Hybrid golf system and control method for the same" was invented by Young Chan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Yoon Ok (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Gwang Seok Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid golf system and control method for the same are configured to further improve the realism of golf play by naturally connecting a virtual golf course on an image projected on a screen and an actual field to naturally convert from a virtual golf play through the virtual golf course image to a field play on the actual field. The hybrid go...