ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,570, issued on May 19, was assigned to TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Golf club head and golf club" was invented by Mark Vincent Greaney (Vista, Calif.), John Francis Lorentzen (El Cajon, Calif.), Matthew Greensmith (Vista, Calif.) and Craig Richard Slyfield (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf club head and golf club having large head dimensions, and large face characteristics, as well as unique mass property attributes driven by relationships not often considered in conventional club head design, to achieve a resistance to squaring the club head during a golf swing that is comfortable to the novice go...