ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,129, issued on May 12, was assigned to Taylor Made Golf Co. Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Golf ball imaging for golf entertainment venue" was invented by Todd Beach (Oceanside, Calif.), Ben Raymond (Encinitas, Calif.) and Joshua Dipert (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Golf entertainment venues with a computing system configured to optically identify and track graphical images located on golf balls hit by players. The graphical image located on a golf ball can be associated with a player and the computing system can assign the player a score when that player's golf ball successfully arrives at a target area. In some embodim...