ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,881, issued on July 8, was assigned to Cobra Golf Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for additive manufacturing of a golf club" was invented by Ryan L. Roach (Encinitas, Calif.), Cameron J. Day (Vista, Calif.) and Bryce W. Hobbs (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of manufacturing a golf club head. The process comprises the step of spreading a thin layer of metal powder over a build plane defined over a build platform. The process also comprises the step of selectively depositing droplets of a binding agent over the thin layer of metal powder in order to bond the metal powder. The process further comp...