Patents Examined by Alvin Hunter
  • Golf club heads with internal undercuts
    Patent number: 11458373
    Abstract: Described herein is a hollow body iron-type golf club head having a sole and ballast configured to relieve stress within a forward portion of the sole. In a first configuration, the golf club head comprises a ballast undercut for relieving stress. In other configurations, the ballast undercut is combined with additional stress relief features, such as a cascading sole near the face sole juncture, for further reductions to face thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Calvin S. Wang, Alex G. Woodward, Eric J. Morales
  • Athletic training system combining cognitive tasks with physical training
    Patent number: 11452927
    Abstract: A method for cognitive brain training, psychological motivation, and recovery to be used in conjunction with physical exercise in order to reduce the effects of mental and physical fatigue and improve athletic performance. A plurality of input devices integrate ergonomically with different sports so as not to limit movement, eye-hand coordination or negatively impact physical training. Software, executable on a portable computing device is configured for a sport, enabling an athlete to perform physical and cognitive tasks at the same time. Metrics, formulas and algorithms combine the athlete's self-rated performance with real-time cognitive and physiological output metrics to provide reports of the athlete's performance for each workout and for all workouts overtime. Mental recovery and motivation protocols used to help athletes stay on task and recover from the physical training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Rewire Fitness, Inc.
    Inventors: Sun Sachs, Cody Frances Rotwein
  • Golf club heads
    Patent number: 11452923
    Abstract: Some disclosed golf club heads include body having at least one raised sole portion and a cantilevered ledge extending down around a perimeter of the club head below the level of the raised sole portion. Some disclosed golf club heads include one or more sole openings in the body and a sole insert that is mounted inside the body over the sole openings. The sole can include weight tracks as well, and a rear weight track can extend between a toe side sole opening and a heel side sole opening. A crown insert can also be included that is mounted over an upper opening in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher John Harbert, Nathan T. Sargent, Justin David Kleinert, Todd P. Beach, Brian Bazzel, Robert Nunez, James Edward Michael Cornish, Nick Robbie
  • Golf club head with vertical center of gravity adjustment
    Patent number: 11446554
    Abstract: Golf club heads include at least one weight port situated to retain weights and positioned above an approximate club face geometric center with the club in a standard address position. One, two, or more weight ports can be located above the club face center in a club crown or other portion of a club body. Club head vertical center of gravity can be selected to compensate dynamic loft associated with locating the club head center of gravity well behind the club face. Three-dimensional adjustment of club head center of gravity is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kraig Alan Willett, Todd P. Beach, Christopher John Harbert, Gery Mel Zimmerman
  • Lightweight multicolor compression molded grip
    Patent number: 11446556
    Abstract: A lightweight compression molded multicolor golf grip having at least a first section and a second section of differing colors and composed of elastomer compounds joined by cross-linking across a sharply defined cross-color interface having an interface transition zone beyond which there is no mixing of the colors. The grip has a soft feel and unique compression characteristics achieved in some embodiments through the controlled use of an expanding blowing agent in a rubber compound. Achieving the sharply defined cross-color interface is due in part to the use of complementary geometries at opposing interface edges to increase the stability of the interface and reduce the flow during molding associated with the increased viscosity of low density rubber compounds, promote cross-linking of the sections, and better distribute and control the consolidation pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Stephen James Davis, Alex Lee Walls, Wen-Chen Su, Aaron Joseph Michaud, Edward Wang
  • Golf club having an adjustable weight assembly
    Patent number: 11439878
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a body having an outer surface with a recessed channel formed therein. A weight assembly that includes a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel, a cover extending over the recessed channel, and a fastener coupling the cover to the body. The fastener is adapted to retain the weight in the recessed channel only indirectly by the cover. The weight assembly is selectively positionable between at least three configurations: a first configuration where the weight is secured within the recessed channel; a second configuration where the weight is slidable within the recessed channel; and a third configuration where the weight is completely removable from the golf club head. The cover is coupled to the body in all three configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Thomas Orrin Bennett, Richard Sanchez, Sang Yi, Stephanie Luttrell, Ryuichi Sugimae
  • Golf club having an adjustable weight assembly
    Patent number: 11439877
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a body having a recessed channel formed in the outer surface. A weight assembly that includes a weight disposed within the recessed channel and a cover extending over the recessed channel. A shelf is defined in the cover and slidably receives the weight. The weight assembly also includes a fastener coupling the cover to the body. The fastener is adapted to retain the weight in the recessed channel only indirectly by the cover. The cover is positionable in an unlocked configuration whereby the cover is raised at least partially out of the recessed channel and the weight is slidable within the shelf and the recessed channel, and a locked configuration whereby the cover is disposed within the recessed channel and the weight is secured within the recessed channel and the shelf. The weight moves with the cover between the unlocked configuration and the locked configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Tyrone Northcutt, Thomas Orrin Bennett, Takeshi Casey Funaki
  • Golf club having an adjustable weight assembly
    Patent number: 11439879
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a body having an outer surface, a recessed channel defined in the outer surface of the body, and a weight assembly. The weight assembly includes a weight at least partially disposed within the recessed channel and configured to slide therein, and a cover adapted to releasably secure the weight within the recessed channel. The cover including a first portion and a second portion. The weight assembly also including a fastener coupling the cover to the body and defining a fastener axis. The fastener engages with the first portion of the cover such that the cover is moveable along the fastener axis, and the second portion of the cover is rotatable relative to the first portion when the first portion is raised at least partially out of the recessed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Sang Yi, Richard Sanchez, Richard L. Cleghorn, Thomas Orrin Bennett
  • Golf club head with hosel hole cover
    Patent number: 11433285
    Abstract: A golf club head with a hosel hole cover that helps improve the performance of the golf club head is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention relates to a golf club head having a hosel hole cover at a bottom portion of an interchangeable connection system that not only provides improved performance of the golf club head by strategically utilizing an existing opening to adjust the weighting of a golf club head, but it also improves the aerodynamics of the golf club head by eliminating undesirable recesses that could be detrimental to the aerodynamics of a golf club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Sang Yi, Stephen S. Murphy, Richard L. Cleghorn
  • Golf club head
    Patent number: 11433283
    Abstract: A high forgiveness wood-type golf club head comprises a body and a face. The body comprises a sole that forms a bottom portion of the golf club head, a crown that forms a top portion of the golf club head and a skirt that forms a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The face place is positioned at a front portion of the golf club head opposite a rear portion of the golf club head. The body defines an outer periphery having a generally triangular shape in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd P. Beach, Peter L. Larsen, Bing-Ling Chao
  • Method for quantifying a sporting activity
    Patent number: 11426629
    Abstract: The invention relates to field of connected sport and specifically a method for quantifying sporting activity implemented by a communication system including: a proximity beacon associated with sports equipment, measuring equipment and a communication node, the method including: (a) communicating between the measuring equipment and the beacon in order to recover a first data packet comprising an identifier relating to a sporting activity associated with the sports equipment; (b) transmitting, to the node, a second data packet comprising the identifier; (c) at the node, determining parameterisation data of the measuring equipment according to the identifier; (d) transmitting, to the measuring equipment, a third data packet 230 comprising said parameterisation data; and (e) at the parameterised measuring equipment, quantifying the sporting activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Olivier Thomas, Sebastien Brulais, Herve Dang, Laurent Freytrich, Jean-Philippe Gros, Jerome Paulet, Prince Arnaud Ramahefa-Andry
  • Sensor device for exercise apparatus and methods thereof
    Patent number: 11426631
    Abstract: A sensor device for exercise data tracking includes a mounting clip that can be coupled to an exercise apparatus. A housing with one or more sensor can be selectably coupled to the mounting clip. During use of the exercise apparatus, the sensor device can track exercise data and wirelessly provide the data to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: IncludeHealth, Inc.
    Inventor: James Ryan Eder
  • Weighted golf grip
    Patent number: 11420102
    Abstract: A grip assembly comprising a grip body that extends between an upper butt end and a distal end. The grip body has a topside and a pair of sides that extend from the topside to a rear underside. The grip body defines a bore extending between the upper butt end and the distal end. The rear underside of the grip body defines a surface and a channel in the surface. An outer wrap permanently encases around an entire circumference of the grip body along a portion of a length of the grip body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Guerin D. Rife
  • Golf club head
    Patent number: 11420097
    Abstract: Described herein is a golf club head that comprises a body and a strike plate. The body comprises a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, and a top portion. The strike plate comprises an outer peripheral edge and at least a portion of a strike face. Furthermore, the strike plate is welded to the body via a peripheral weld between the outer peripheral edge of the strike plate and the body. The outer peripheral edge of the strike plate comprises at least one welded portion, welded to the body via the peripheral weld, and at least one non-welded portion, not welded to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor
  • Grooves of golf club heads and methods to manufacture grooves of golf club heads
    Patent number: 11420100
    Abstract: Putter type club head with vertical groove patterns are described herein. A putter type club head comprises a putter face having a plurality of first curved grooves and a plurality of second curved grooves. The first curved grooves and the second curved grooves extend in a general vertical direction, and intersect each other at a plurality of points across the putter face. The width and depth of the first curved grooves and the second curved grooves can vary across the putter face in a direction extending from a heel end to a toe end, and/or in a direction extending from a top rail to a sole. The vertical groove pattern provides consistent ball speed performance for any impact location on the putter face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Calvin S. Wang, Xiaojian Chen, David A. Higdon, Les J. Bryant, Martin R. Jertson, Anthony D. Serrano, John A. Solheim
  • Golf club alternative fitting system
    Patent number: 11413507
    Abstract: The invention is an alternative fitting system for golf clubs including a adapted production head with a threaded hosel and a shaft sleeve adapter and a compression nut. The shaft sleeve adapter is permanently adhered to a golf club shaft. The compression nut holds together the shaft sleeve adapter and the threaded hosel of the club head. Alignment notches on the threaded hosel and alignment features on the shaft sleeve adapter prevent unwanted rotation. Furthermore, some embodiments of the shaft sleeve adapter comprise an angled bore hole, which allows for various loft and lie configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Alex J. Hope, Erik M. Henrikson
  • Golf club
    Patent number: 11413510
    Abstract: A shim or badge is affixed to a golf cub body to produce a cap-back iron, giving the appearance of a hollow-body iron. In this way, the golf club can be manufactured with the performance benefits of a game improvement iron, while providing the appearance of a blade, player's iron, and/or a hollow-body iron. For example, by using a lightweight and rigid shim or badge to close a cavity opening and extend into the toe portion in the golf club body, the golf club head can provide increased stiffness in the topline, while lowering CG. Various shim or badge arrangements and materials can be used, and a filler material and/or damper can be included within the cavity to improve sound and feel, while minimizing loss in COR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl, Mattieu Bovee
  • Golf club with adjustable center of gravity head
    Patent number: 11413509
    Abstract: A golf club having a head with a series of tracks forming a three-dimensional pattern; weights for positioning along channels; and a mechanism for securing the weights at positions along the channels so as to customize center of gravity and moment of inertia. The channels can all interconnect to allow a weight to be moved from one to another. The club can include a removable cover for at least a portion of the surface to cover the channels and the weights. The weights can comprise a spherical member disposed in a channel; a member external to a surface of the head; and a coupling between the spherical member and the external member to allow the spherical member and the external member to capture between them a wall in which a track is formed. The channels may be in the removable cover, or below the removable cover, in the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Vandette B. Carter
  • Iron-type golf club head
    Patent number: 11406882
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head that comprises a strike plate, an enclosed internal cavity, and a rear aperture formed in a rear wall. The iron-type golf club head also comprises a stiffening plug, within the internal cavity and compressed between the back surface of the strike plate and the rear wall. The stiffening plug is insertable, through a rear aperture, into the internal cavity. The iron-type golf club head further comprises a rear fascia covering the rear aperture and at least a portion of the rear wall. A characteristic time (CT) at a geometric center of the strike face is at least 250 microseconds. A maximum thickness of the strike plate, at the strike face, is less than 3.5 millimeters, inclusive. The strike plate, excluding grooves, has a minimum thickness between 1.1 millimeters and 2.2 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Taylor, Joseph H. Hoffman, Matthew D. Johnson, Todd Beach
  • Systems and methods for a variable thickness club head
    Patent number: 11406880
    Abstract: A method for forming a crownplate of a golf club head includes the steps of providing a first plurality of composite pre-preg plies, aligning the first plurality of pre-preg plies within a mold cavity in a first configuration in the shape of the crownplate, and heating the plurality of composite pre-preg plies to form the crownplate. The first configuration includes a first thickness area and a second thickness area. The second thickness area is thicker than the first thickness area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Cobra Golf Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan L. Roach, D. Clayton Evans