US Patent Issued to Acushnet on July 8 for "Golf balls having sighting aid and methods of making same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,554, issued on July 8, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Golf balls having sighting aid and methods of making same" was invented by Matthew Hogge (Plymouth, Mass.), Michael Madson (Easton, Mass.), Steven Aoyama (Marion, Mass.), Vincent Simonds (Brimfield, Mass.) and Courtney Engle (Fall River, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sighting aids for golf balls that allow a golfer to sight a direction in which to hit or putt a golf ball and a method of producing the same and golf balls having sighting aids that have a certain degree of wrap determined by a sighting equation and surface coverage determine by a surface cove...