ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,904, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).
"Multi-material golf club head" was invented by Ryuichi Sugimae (San Diego) and Peter Larsen (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-material golf club head having an improved performance is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multi-material golf club head having a metallic frontal portion and a lightweight aft portion with an addition of an internal ribbon support member. The lightweight aft portion could be formed of a multi-layered sandwich material with at least one layer having low damping properties. The pres...