US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on July 21 for "Golf ball" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,902, issued on July 21, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Golf ball" was invented by Yasuo Naito (Kobe, Japan), Masayuki Onishi (Kobe, Japan), Kazuyoshi Shiga (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kobe, Japan) and Takehiko Hyodo (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball from which stain such as mud or grass juice can be wiped off when the stain is adhered to the golf ball while the spin performance of the golf ball on approach shots is not substantially lowered. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint fil...