ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,283, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Information providing system, information providing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program" was invented by Asami Ebisawa (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kuwahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information providing system includes one or more processors and a memory that stores one or more programs executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors to execute obtaining, for a golf course including greens, position data indicating a position of each of players playing golf on each of the gr...