US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS on July 7 for "Rubber composition for golf ball" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,045, issued on July 7, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Rubber composition for golf ball" was invented by Jun Shindo (Chichibushi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rubber composition for golf balls includes (a) a base rubber, relative amounts of (b) a co-crosslinking agent which is an Alpha,Beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a metal salt thereof and of (c) an organic peroxide that together satisfy a specific condition, and (d) a specific amount of a moisture-providing agent, the latter being a substance which includes on the structure thereof a water constituent other than free water and eliminates mois...