ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,898, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mulligan International Inc. (Beloeil, Canada).
"Golf ball recovery systems, apparatus, and methods" was invented by Maxime Pouchet (Beloeil, Canada), Mikael Pouchet (Beloeil, Canada) and Francois Pouchet (Beloeil, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus and methods for recovering golf balls from a surface at the bottom of a body of water are described. The systems and apparatus comprise a picking assembly configured to pick golf balls from a surface when moved along the surface and a docking module configured to receive the picking assembly and to remove the golf balls therefro...