US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Oct. 27 for "Golf ball having spherical quadrilateral segmented dimple pattern" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,597, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Golf ball having spherical quadrilateral segmented dimple pattern" was invented by Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.), John S. Dytko (Derby, Conn.) and Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of a dimple pattern methodology, and dimple pattern configurations are disclosed herein. A spherical quadrilateral segment division can be used to maintain a high level of symmetry in the dimple pattern while also maintaining a specific dimple layout in polar regions of the golf ball. In one aspect, the specific configurations dis...