ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,675, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE SPORTS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Golf ball" was invented by Hideo Watanabe (Saitamaken, Japan) and Atsushi Komatsu (Saitamaken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a golf ball having a core, a cover, at least one intermediate layer therebetween, and a coating layer on the cover, the cover is formed of a transparent or translucent resin composition and the intermediate layer is formed of a resin composition. The sphere consisting of the core encased by the intermediate layer has specific lightness and chroma values in the Lab color space. The coating layer is composed of one or more lay...