US Patent Issued to Acushnet on April 1 for "Golf ball dimples defined by superposed curve with decaying feature" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,382, issued on April 1, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Golf ball dimples defined by superposed curve with decaying feature" was invented by Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.), Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.) and Nicholas M. Nardacci (Barrington, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball having a plurality of dimples on a surface thereof is disclosed herein. At least a first group of the plurality of dimples has a cross-sectional dimple profile defined by a superposed function resulting from a sum of at least a first function and a second function. The first function can be defined by at least one of: a c...