Distance indicator system for golf
CA 2254555 A1 · Owner: Subryan, Leslie · Inventors: Goss, Ken; Hendershot, James; Coutts, Gordon
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A golf distance indicator system provides measurement and display of the distance between a golfer and the pin on the green he is approaching. The system comprises a portable unit carried by the golfer and an target unit located on the pin. With the portable unit, the golfer selects the hole he is playing then activates the system. The portable unit sends a wireless coded message to an intended target unit. When a target unit receives a message it, analyzes the message to see if it should respond. If the target unit determines that it should respond it sends a coded, responding message to the portable unit. When the portable unit receives a responding message, it analyzes the responding …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 20, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 20, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 20, 2020.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.