US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Nov. 11 for "Golf ball having at least one radar detectable mark" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,835, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"Golf ball having at least one radar detectable mark" was invented by Michael R. Madson (Easton, Mass.), Matthew F. Hogge (Plymouth, Mass.), Nicholas M. Nardacci (Barrington, R.I.) and Richard Daprato (Acushnet, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Golf balls including a plurality of radar detectable marks disposed on any single layer or among two or more layers thereof are provided. When all of the radar detectable marks present on any layer of the ball are radially projected onto the outer surface of the ball, the resulting overall pattern of projected radar d...