US Patent Issued to Acushnet on July 21 for "Coating free, finished golf ball with polyurethane cover" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,904, issued on July 21, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Coating free, finished golf ball with polyurethane cover" was invented by Michael Michalewich (Norton, Mass.), Manjari Kuntimaddi (Raynham, Mass.), Derek Ladd (Acushnet, Mass.), Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.), Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.) and Shawn Ricci (New Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating free, finished golf ball and a method of forming a coating free, finished golf ball are disclosed herein. The golf ball has an outermost surface defined exclusively via the cover. The cover disclosed herein can be formed from a polyurethan...