US Patent Issued to Topgolf Callaway Brands on Aug. 19 for "Additive manufactured golf club face insert" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,700, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Additive manufactured golf club face insert" was invented by Brandon DeMille (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Patrick Dawson (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resilient, high-performance face insert for a golf club head, preferably a putter head, is disclosed herein. In particular, the face insert comprises multiple layers of material, one or more of which may be manufactured using additive printing processes, and one or more of which may comprise variable thickness patterns to optimize ball speed, spin, and other performance characteristic...