US Patent Issued to Callaway Golf on Nov. 3 for "Bent composite golf club shaft and methods for manufacturing bent composite golf club shafts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,764, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Callaway Golf Co. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Bent composite golf club shaft and methods for manufacturing bent composite golf club shafts" was invented by Logan K. Johnston (Vista, Calif.), Robert Gonczi (Oceanside, Calif.), Brandon D. DeMille (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Patrick Dawson (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lightweight, low-torque, composite golf club shafts with bent tips and methods of manufacturing such golf club shafts are disclosed herein. Some methods involve the use of pre-bent, rigid tubes that remain inside the finished composite shafts to support their bent tip structures. ...