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Article: Patent No. 7,607,996 Issued on Oct. 27, Assigned to Acushnet for Golf Ball Dimple Pattern (Massachusetts Inventors)
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- October 29, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 30 -- Charles J. Tapper of Fairhaven, Mass., and Steven Aoyama of Marion, Mass., have developed a golf ball dimple pattern. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,607,996 on Oct. 27.
The patent has been assigned to Acushnet Co., Fairhaven.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball is provided with a dimple pattern comprising two substantially identical elongated dimple pattern elements which fit together to form the complete dimple pattern. The dimple pattern can contain 344 dimples covering about 70.4% of the golf ball surface or 392 dimples covering about 73.3%, or other combinations of dimple count and coverage. ...