ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,069, issued on June 16, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).
"Dimple patterns for golf balls" was invented by Emilia DaCosta (New Bedford, Mass.), Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.), Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.) and Nicholas M. Nardacci (Barrington, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball has a first hemisphere and a second hemisphere and a plurality of dimples arranged in a pattern divided into dimple segments separated by n longitudinal lines. Within each hemisphere, the plurality of dimples consists of shared dimples that are intersected by the longitudinal lines and segment dimples that are each wholly...