US Patent Issued to Acushnet on March 18 for "Methods of reducing center shift of golf ball components and improving concentricity" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,855, issued on March 18, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Methods of reducing center shift of golf ball components and improving concentricity" was invented by Manjari Kuntimaddi (Raynham, Mass.), Edward Costa (East Providence, R.I.) and Erin McDermott (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of reducing center shifting of golf ball components, which, in turn, improves concentricity of the resulting golf balls. The methods include extruding a golf ball component material through an extruder to form an extrudate having a first temperature, cutting the extrudate at a sec...