Patents by Inventor Franklin C. Miller

Franklin C. Miller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4283056
    Abstract: The process utilizes a conventional golf practice driving range with added greens with flags for approach shots, the conventional practice putting greens and a computer with a viewing screen. The computer is programmable, as by a cassette tape, to show in sequence layout and data on each of the eighteen holes of a selected classical golf course. The actual drives and approach shots are "played" on the practice driving range and are added to the computer information on the screen to show ball placement on the screened course. A golfer can play realistically any of the great courses of the world and measure his game against the par for those courses by the process, completing putting out for a final score on adjacent practice greens. A putting phase for each hole is preferably done after the drive and approach shots are made for all eighteen holes, or each nine holes, but may be done on the practice green after the drive and approach shots for each hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Inventor: Franklin C. Miller
  • Patent number: 4192510
    Abstract: The process utilizes a conventional golf practice driving range with added greens with flags for approach shots, the conventional practice putting greens and a computer with a viewing screen. The computer is programmable, as by a cassette tape, to show in sequence layout and data on each of the eighteen holes of a selected classical golf course. The actual drives and approach shots are "played" on the practice driving range and are added to the computer information on the screen to show ball placement on the screened course. A golfer can play realistically any of the great courses of the world and measure his game against the par for those courses by the process, completing putting out for final score on adjacent practice greens. A putting phase for each hole is preferably done after the drive and approach shots are made for all eighteen holes, or each nine holes, but may be done on the practice green after the drive and approach shots for each hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1980
    Inventor: Franklin C. Miller