US Patent Issued to Karsten Manufacturing on Sept. 30 for "Mallet-style putter head with alignment aid" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,384, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Karsten Manufacturing Corp. (Phoenix).

"Mallet-style putter head with alignment aid" was invented by Clayson C. Spackman (Scottsdale, Ariz.), David A. Higdon (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Paul D. Wood (Phoenix) and Jemma Brown (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of mallet-style putter-type golf club heads comprising a first color and an alignment system to draw a golfer's eye towards a particular desirable location are described herein. The alignment system includes a central line extending rearward from a top edge centerpoint toward the rear portion and comprising a second color diffe...