Patents Examined by John E Simms, Jr.
  • Retractable and detachably engageable sports net system
    Patent number: 11192009
    Abstract: A net system comprising a first net module including a first housing, a first net and a first connector connected to the first net. The first net being retractably connected to the first housing. The net system additionally includes a second net module including a second housing, a second net and a second connecter connected to the second net, the second net being retractably connected to the second housing. The first connector is connectable to the second connector to detachably connect the first net module to the second net module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Saphire Hospitality, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Saphire
  • Protection device for crossbow
    Patent number: 11193727
    Abstract: A crossbow includes a barrel with a flight groove, and a bow. A magazine is mounted to the body and located above the flight groove. A passage is defined through the magazine for accommodating multiple arrows therein. A slot is formed between the magazine and the flight groove. A string of the bow movably extends through the slot. An arm is pivotably located in the passage and includes a hook end which normally presses on a top-most arrow of the arrows in the magazine. When no arrow is in the magazine, the hook end is inserted into the slot and the user cannot successfully cock the string because the string is stopped by the hook end, so that the user is acknowledged that there is no arrow in the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Poe Lang Enterprise Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Chi-Chang Liu
  • Crossbow bowstring positioning system
    Patent number: 11181337
    Abstract: Crossbow bowstring positioning systems are provided. In one aspect of the invention a crossbow bowstring positioning system has a crank housing supporting an axle and positioning a first connector at a front facing surface of the crank housing, a length of rope connected between two separated points on the axle; a bowstring connector joined to the length of rope and connectable to a bowstring of the crossbow, a mounting having a buffer tube mount mountable to a buffer tube of a crossbow; and a crank operable to rotate the axle to control an extent to which the rope is wound onto the axle and a position of the bowstring connector relative to the axle. The crank housing and mounting can be readily assembled in a small space and an efficient manner while providing paths through which a force experienced by the axle during use can be resisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Crosman Corporation
    Inventor: Hans J. Walthert
  • Game broker
    Patent number: 11183028
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a broker pools funds from multiple clients and uses the funds to place bets in casinos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Geoffrey M. Gelman
  • Golf ball
    Patent number: 11179605
    Abstract: In order to satisfy at a high level the golf ball flight and control performances relied on by professional golfers and skilled amateurs, this invention provides a multi-piece solid golf ball G having a core 1, a cover 3 and an intermediate layer 2 therebetween wherein the core is formed of a rubber composition that includes an alcohol having a value obtained by dividing the molecular weight of the alcohol by the number of hydroxyl groups thereon which is 70 or less. Also, letting Hc be the JIS-C hardness at the center of the core, H12 be the JIS-C hardness at a position 12 mm from the core center and Ho be the JIS-C hardness at the surface of the core, the core has a hardness profile in which these hardnesses satisfy fixed relationships defined by specific formulas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kimura, Toru Ogawana, Katsunobu Mochizuki, Jun Shindo
  • Golf balls having volumetric equivalence on opposing hemispheres and symmetric flight performance and methods of making same
    Patent number: 11173347
    Abstract: Golf balls according to the present invention achieve flight symmetry and overall satisfactory flight performance due to a dimple surface volume ratio that is equivalent between opposing hemispheres despite the use of different dimple geometries, different dimple arrangements, and/or different dimple counts on the opposing hemispheres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Madson, Nicholas M. Nardacci
  • Dimple patterns for golf balls
    Patent number: 11173346
    Abstract: A golf ball dimple pattern based on a square dipyramid, i.e., two square pyramids connected base-to-base, is disclosed. The dimples are arranged within four substantially identical triangular sections on each of two substantially identical hemispheres of the ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Michael R. Madson
  • Golf club head
    Patent number: 11173360
    Abstract: A putter-type golf club head has a main body and a face component including a first element formed of a resilient material. The putter-type golf club head also has a second element forward of the first element and including a rigid material. The second element is secured directly to the first element. The first element has a thickness that gradually increases toward a sole portion of the club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keith Dolezel, Dan Nivanh, Mitch Samson, Joseph Chen, Mika Becktor, Michael Boyle, Dustin Brekke, Bryce Weir, Phillip C. Seagram
  • Golf club head
    Patent number: 11148018
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a loft no less than 40 degrees; a striking face; a virtual center plane that is vertical and perpendicular to a virtual striking face plane and includes a face center; a rear face; and a recess. The recess extends in a heel-to-toe direction along an upper sole surface and has a depth that varies in the heel-to-toe direction such that a first depth corresponds with a first location heel-ward of the face center and a second depth corresponds with a second location toe-ward of the face center, the first depth being no less than 10 mm and greater than the second depth by at least 5 mm. An insert is received in the recess. And a center of gravity of the golf club head is spaced no greater than 5.0 mm from the virtual center plane measured in the heel-to-toe direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jake Grenier, Phillip C. Seagram, Joseph Chen, Dustin Brekke
  • Tackling ring training devices and methods
    Patent number: 11148031
    Abstract: The disclosure provides embodiments of a tackling ring and methods of use therefore that are useful for training safer techniques of football tackling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Marty Gilman, Inc.
    Inventor: Neil F. Gilman
  • Modular cascading game and method
    Patent number: 11148028
    Abstract: A game apparatus and method for bag toss includes box sections connected end to end to form a cascading arrangement angled from a rear box section to a forward box section towards a playing position. Each box section includes a back plate and a peripheral sidewall projecting outwardly from a front side of the back plate. Each box section is connected with a sidewall of an adjacent box section in sequence. A leg section is attached to a bottom of the sidewall at the box section at one end opposite the section at a base. The leg section supports the game apparatus in an elevated angle inclined towards the forward box section. The method discloses a different scoring value for each box section dependent on the size of the box. The box sections may be nestable within one another for compact storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Aaron Simmons
  • Wearable partial task surgical simulator
    Patent number: 11151902
    Abstract: A wearable device for simulating wounds and injuries received during a trauma event includes a raiment and vest for covering the torso of a person. The raiment has an outer surface with a color and a texture comparable to human skin. Mounted on the outer surface is at least one wound simulator formed with an orifice that is in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir. Thus, the person can selectively expel a blood-like fluid from the reservoir, and through the wound simulator orifice, to simulate a trauma event. The vest includes an artificial rib cage and prosthetic internal organs juxtaposed with at least one wound simulator to simulate internal effects of a trauma event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Stuart C. Segall
  • Multi-component golf club head
    Patent number: 11135486
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads with enclosed weight members are described herein. In many embodiments, the club head comprises a body having a front end, a back end, a heel end, a toe end, a top rail, and a sole; the body further including a front body defining the front end; a rear body coupled to the front body, wherein the rear body is formed of a second material having a second density; a plurality of weight receptacles defined in one or both of the front body and the rear body and one or more weight members received into the weight receptacles, the one or more weight members being formed of a third material having a third density; and wherein the one or more weight members are fully enclosed between the front body and the rear body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: David A. Higdon
  • Spinning top launching device
    Patent number: 11110362
    Abstract: A first locking mechanism is configured to block rotating the first and second holders by locking an operation component or by locking the first and second holders when the cap is not mounted on one of the first and second holders, and is configured to unlock rotating the first and second holders by being engaged with the cap when the cap is mounted on one of the first and second holders and when the cap is arranged to face upwardly towards a upper side. A second locking mechanism is configured to block rotating the first and second holders by locking the operation component or by locking the first and second holders when the cap is mounted on one of the first and second holders and when the cap is arranged to face downwardly to a lower side opposite to the upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hama, Takeaki Maeda
  • Golf ball dimples having circumscribed prismatoids
    Patent number: 11110321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to golf balls, specifically, to a golf ball with multifaceted dimples comprising two discrete geometries including a circular perimeter and a depression or protrusion based on a polyhedral prismatoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Madson, Nicholas M. Nardacci
  • Golf training aid apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11110334
    Abstract: A golf training aid 100 has a sensor mat 105 placed under a golf mat 200. The sensor mat 105 has pressure-sensitive impact sensors 210 disposed in first, second and third regions. It includes an electronic circuit which activates a first indicator green upon an ideal impact detected by impact of a golf club head on pressure-sensitive impact sensors 210 in the first region, a second indicator yellow upon a thin impact, or the third indicator red upon a fat shot impact detected by the impact sensors 210. The golf training aid 100 also includes a wearable module 700 attached to the golfer's waist. It includes an accelerometer which measures rotational motion of the wearable device 700 and wirelessly transmits a signal to a base module 600 which activates an indicator to show under-rotation, proper rotation and over-rotation of the golfer's hips at impact of the golf ball 305.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Leslie A. Saint-Louis
  • Latching loader mechanism with gated feed
    Patent number: 11079198
    Abstract: The latching/locking loader mechanism of the present invention provides a quick-release latch mechanism where a user can unlock and lock the attachment of the loader to the paintball gun quickly and easily without the use of tools. The latching/locking mechanism stays locked or unlocked without further use of tools. A spring-biased gate is provided in the path of the paintballs, namely, in the feed neck of the loader. When the loader is installed on the paintball marker, via a feed collar, deflection posts on the feed collar push the gate out of the paintball path in the feed neck of the loader so that paintballs may freely pass from the storage chamber of the loader and then into the breech of the paintball marker. When not installed on a feed collar, the gate blocks the path of paintballs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Planet Eclipse UK Limited
    Inventor: Jack Kingsley Wood
  • Tennis ball projecting machine
    Patent number: 11077352
    Abstract: A tennis ball projecting machine including a support member, a rotatable wheel mounted on one side of the support member, a wheel motor on the other side of the support member, a curved rail below the wheel, a tennis ball hopper above the support member, a surface between the hopper and the machine having a feed opening where at least a portion of the feed opening is on the other side of the support member, and a rotatable body with one or more ball openings that periodically aligns with the feed opening to permit a tennis ball to pass through the feed opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Sports Tutor, Inc.
    Inventor: William James Greene, Jr.
  • Golf club shaft assembly
    Patent number: 11071892
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf clubs with coupling mechanisms are presented herein. In some embodiments, a golf club comprises a shaft having a shaft bore and a first end, and a club head having a coupling mechanism, the coupling mechanism including a hosel, an insert configured to be positioned within the hosel, the insert including a top end, a bottom end, an insert bore configured to receive the first end of the shaft, the insert bore having a bottom surface and an insert bore depth measured from the bottom surface to the top end of the insert, and a reinforcement member extending from the bottom surface of the insert bore, the reinforcement member configured to be positioned within the shaft bore to reinforce the coupling mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: David S. Kultala, Ryan M. Stokke, Martin R. Jertson
  • Systems and methods for a weighted golf club head
    Patent number: 11033782
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a body, a first weight assembly, and a second weight assembly. The body defines an interior cavity and an exterior surface having a forward-most point and a rearward-most point. The body includes a face disposed within a forward portion of the golf club head, a sole defining a bottom portion of a golf club head, a crown defining a top portion of the golf club head, and a skirt positioned about a portion of a periphery of the golf club head between the sole and the crown. The first weight assembly extends between the toe and the heel, has a first center of gravity, and is configured to engage a forward weight cavity mount that is formed in the sole. The second weight assembly defines a second center of gravity and is configured to engage a rearward weight aperture that is formed in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Cobra Golf Incorporated
    Inventors: D. Clayton Evans, Ryan L. Roach