US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS on June 16 for "Golf ball" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,070, issued on June 16, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Golf ball" was invented by Jun Shindo (Chichibushi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a golf ball having a core and a cover of one or more layer, the core is a product molded under heat from a rubber composition which includes (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent which is an Alpha,Beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, (c) an organic peroxide, and (d) water, wherein the content of component (d) is set within a specific range and components (b) and (c) are included in relative amounts that satisfy a specific condition. ...