ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,882, issued on July 15, was assigned to Selkirk Sport LLC (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho).
"Pickleballs" was invented by William Richard Kowalski (Honolulu).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball may include a spherical shell, and apertures defined in the spherical shell. The apertures may be formed in the spherical shell based at least in part on a N-frequency tessellation of the spherical shell. A method of forming a ball may include molding a first hemisphere, molding a second hemisphere, and coupling the first hemisphere to the second hemisphere to form a spherical shell. The spherical shell may include apertures defined in the spherical sh...