ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,021, issued on June 2, was assigned to HOLE IQ Pty LTD..
"Golf cup apparatus" was invented by Philip Cornell (Birdwood, Australia) and Paul Szuster (Mylor, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is proposed at a golf hole, a golf hole insert or an advertising apparatus, including, a base, a ball support member connected to the base and movable between a retracted position and an elevated position by way of a drive, a generally annular shaped display support fixed to an upper surface of the ball support member whereby, when the ball support member is in the elevated position, the display support extends upwardly from the golf h...