US Patent Issued to Acushnet on Nov. 18 for "High-speed golf ball handling and management system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,405, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Acushnet Co. (Fairhaven, Mass.).

"High-speed golf ball handling and management system" was invented by Edmund T. Maher (Fairhaven, Mass.) and Jedediah H. James (Dighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf ball printing system has a plurality of stations and a plurality of station tracks. The plurality of stations have an orienting station, a printing station, and a offloading station, and each of the plurality of station tracks have an orienting station track, a printing station track, and an offloading station track. The golf ball printing system also has a primary track connecting ea...