US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on June 23 for "Ball position identification system, ball position identification method and information storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,552, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Ball position identification system, ball position identification method and information storage medium" was invented by Ryohei Takuma (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kuwahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shot identifying module 220 identifies a flight distance of the golf ball and an angle of a direction from the measurement terminal 10 toward the golf ball with respect to a direction toward which the user terminal 10 is directed at a time of the measurement. A terminal position and orientation identifying module 222 identifies a terminal position and a terminal or...