ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,024, issued on June 17, was assigned to Volvik Inc. (Chungcheonbuk-do, South Korea).
"Color golf ball with natural metallic gloss" was invented by Kyung Ahn Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color coating solution is produced by dispersing a nano-color pigment and a metallic gloss pigment into a polymer resin, and the solution is coated and molded on a cover layer having a color similar to that of the color coating solution. Since the pigment composition is different between the cover layer and the color coating layer, internal shieldability is improved. As a result, a d...