ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,316, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).
"Multi-piece golf club head" was invented by Richard Sanchez (Temecula, Calif.), Richard L. Cleghorn (Oceanside, Calif.), Ryuichi Sugimae (San Diego), Peter Larsen (San Marcos, Calif.), Stephen Murphy (Carlsbad, Calif.), Hiroshi Kawaguchi (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Kyle A. Carr (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-piece, multi-material golf club head is disclosed herein. More specifically, the golf club head in accordance with the present invention utilizes multiple pieces of different materials to form a frontal portion of a golf club head, a...