ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,829, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Estimating golfer position using vehicle sensors" was invented by Shayne Evan Rimer (North Augusta, S.C.) and Brian Wanta (North Augusta, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf system includes a golf cart, one or more sensors coupled to the golf cart, and one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory devices are configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: determine, based on one...