ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,598, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cobra Golf Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a variable thickness club head" was invented by D. Clayton Evans (Vista, Calif.), Ryan L. Roach (Encinitas, Calif.) and Michael T. McDonnell (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crownplate for a golf club head includes a shell formed from a first plurality of pre-preg plies and a second plurality of pre-preg plies and defining a first thickness area and a second thickness area. The first plurality of pre-preg plies includes a resin material and a first plurality of fibers and the second plurality of pre-preg plies incl...