ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,470, issued on April 7, was assigned to Taylor Made Golf Co. Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Irons with optimized face" was invented by Connor Mark Halberg (San Clemente, Calif.) and Scott Taylor (Bonita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Iron-type golf club heads can have a high-COR face portion with an optimized face thickness profile that maximizes selected performance characteristics, such as ball speed, ball spin or ball trajectory angle, while maintaining certain required constraint properties, such as keeping stresses low for durability. Such face portions can have certain regions that are significantly stiffer than other region...