US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Dec. 2 for "Method and system for analyzing durability of golf ball" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,487, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Method and system for analyzing durability of golf ball" was invented by Paul Furze (Tiverton, R.I.) and Leonidas Amarant (Middletown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, technique, and/or system for determining the durability of a golf ball, and more particularly the durability of a cover of a golf ball is disclosed herein. The present disclosure provides an objective technique for scoring or rating the durability of golf balls such that a uniform scoring methodology can be used. The present disclosure uses imaging techniques and image processing techn...