US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Hybrid baseball bat and construction methods" (Minnesota, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,761, issued on June 30.

"Hybrid baseball bat and construction methods" was invented by Steven John Benda (Cokato, Minn.), Logan James Benda (Cokato, Minn.), Peter James Kruse (Delano, Minn.) and Adam Robert Loukus (Calumet, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various forms of hybrid baseball bats comprising a wood shell having a radial wall and an outer radial surface profile defining a baseball bat. The wood shell having a central core with a central surface thereon extending from a distal end of the bat. The central surface being profiled with a taper that in some embodiments extends entirely through to the pr...