US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Aug. 11 for "Method for single-step heat treatment of titanium alloys, golf club striking faces, and golf club heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,901, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Method for single-step heat treatment of titanium alloys, golf club striking faces, and golf club heads" was invented by Uday V. Deshmukh (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Jorgen Meister (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a golf club head includes forming a pre-forged striking face insert from an Alpha-Beta titanium alloy having a Molybdenum equivalency of about 6 to 12 or an Al equivalency of about 2 to 7, and forging the pre-forged striking face insert into a forged striking face insert having a specified geometry or curvature....