ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,313, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).
"Dimple patterns for golf balls" was invented by Courtney N. Engle (Fall River, Mass.) and Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for arranging dimples on a golf ball surface in which the dimples are arranged in a pattern derived from at least one irregular domain generated from a regular or non-regular polyhedron. The method includes choosing control points of a polyhedron, generating an irregular domain based on those control points, packing the irregular domain with dimples, and tessellating the...