Patents by Inventor Bill Price
Bill Price has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250229145Abstract: A putter golf club head having one or more repositionable weight assemblies, such as a heel weight assembly and a toc weight assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: July 17, 2025Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Jonathan Dreitlein, Bill Price, Gustavo Eduardo Alisio
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Publication number: 20250213951Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2025Publication date: July 3, 2025Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Patent number: 12268945Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Publication number: 20250041678Abstract: Golf club heads include white diffusing top surfaces to aid in club head alignment. Wood type club heads also include a dark diffusing club face so that a crown/face border is emphasized. Scorelines in wood type clubs can be provided with an intermediate contrast surface, and can be displaced from club face center to accommodate player perception when confronted with a white diffusing crown. Putter heads can include dark diffusing alignment lines, and iron-type club heads can include white diffusing surfaces at a sole portion of a club face, at a top line, or a top portion of a club face.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Beach, David Anderson, Bill Price, Kevin Harper, Benoit Vincent, Bret H. Wahl
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Publication number: 20240424356Abstract: A putter-type golf club head comprises a unitary construction metallic frame having a thin wall crown region, and a crown damping member attached to thin wall crown region. The unitary construction metallic frame has a frame mass of 250-370 grams, a frame density of at least 2.5 g/cc, a frame length of 40-130 mm, a frame width of 75-130 mm, a frame height of 17-30 mm, a frame front forming a portion of a striking face, a frame rear, a frame top, and a frame bottom, wherein the frame top includes a thin wall crown region having a TWCR thickness of 0.6-1.2 mm, a TWCR length, a TWCR width, and a TWCR area of at least 600 mm2.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Reed Potter, JONATHAN DREITLEIN, PAUL DEMKOWSKI, John Benjamin Harle, BILL PRICE
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Publication number: 20240399219Abstract: A golf club head having a planar strike face formed of oxidizable metal substrate including an unplated portion of the oxidizable metal substrate that is not plated and defines an oxidizable strike face surface area. A first oxidation-prevention coating permanently covers at least a portion of the body including at least a portion of the rear portion and the heel portion, and a temporary user-removable cover is located over at least a portion of the oxidizable strike face surface area and may temporarily regulate oxidation. The club head has performance and confidence inspiring ratios of the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total volume, as well as the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total planar strike face surface area, and the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total surface area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Peter Barker, Paul Demkowski, Giancarlo Bruschi, Bill Price
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Patent number: 12097411Abstract: Golf club heads include white diffusing top surfaces to aid in club head alignment. Wood type club heads also include a dark diffusing club face so that a crown/face border is emphasized. Scorelines in wood type clubs can be provided with an intermediate contrast surface, and can be displaced from club face center to accommodate player perception when confronted with a white diffusing crown. Putter heads can include dark diffusing alignment lines, and iron-type club heads can include white diffusing surfaces at a sole portion of a club face, at a top line, or a top portion of a club face.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Beach, David Anderson, Bill Price, Kevin Harper, Benoit Vincent, Bret H. Wahl
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Publication number: 20240009542Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Publication number: 20230330506Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Patent number: 11673035Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Patent number: 11504588Abstract: Described herein is a golf club head. The golf club head comprises a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, opposite the heel portion, a top portion, opposite the sole portion, a rear portion, and a front portion, opposite the rear portion and comprising a strike face. An outer surface of at least the rear portion and at most a limited part of the strike face is made of a non-oxidizable metal material. At least a part of the strike face is made of an oxidizable metal material.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Peter Barker, Paul Demkowski, Giancarlo Bruschi, Bill Price
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Publication number: 20220288464Abstract: Golf club heads include white diffusing top surfaces to aid in club head alignment. Wood type club heads also include a dark diffusing club face so that a crown/face border is emphasized. Scorelines in wood type clubs can be provided with an intermediate contrast surface, and can be displaced from club face center to accommodate player perception when confronted with a white diffusing crown. Putter heads can include dark diffusing alignment lines, and iron-type club heads can include white diffusing surfaces at a sole portion of a club face, at a top line, or a top portion of a club face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Todd P. Beach, David Anderson, Bill Price, Kevin Harper, Benoit Vincent, Bret H. Wahl
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Patent number: 11369848Abstract: A golf club head having a milled planar strike face formed of oxidizable metal material and a plurality of primary grooves, and a first oxidation-prevention coating permanently covering at least a portion of the body. The primary grooves have toeward ends that may be unaligned vertically. A temporary user-removable cover may cover at least a portion of the oxidizable strike face surface area and obscure the view of at least a portion of the plurality of primary grooves, and may incorporate an opening to display a portion of the face and a portion of the plurality of primary grooves, a non-stick tab coupled to a periphery of the temporary user-removable cover, and/or an external layer of plastic-based shrink wrap. The temporary user-removable cover may be adhesively attached to the face to seal an underlying area from environmental exposure and inhibit oxidation.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Peter Barker, Paul Demkowski, Giancarlo Bruschi, Bill Price
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Publication number: 20220161106Abstract: A golf club head having a planar strike face formed of oxidizable metal substrate including an unplated portion of the oxidizable metal substrate that is not plated and defines an oxidizable strike face surface area. A first oxidation-prevention coating permanently covers at least a portion of the body including at least a portion of the rear portion and the heel portion, and a temporary user-removable cover is located over at least a portion of the oxidizable strike face surface area and may temporarily regulate oxidation. The club head has performance and confidence inspiring ratios of the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total volume, as well as the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total planar strike face surface area, and the oxidizable strike face surface area divided by the total surface area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Peter Barker, Paul Demkowski, Giancarlo Bruschi, Bill Price
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Patent number: D943694Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Bill Price, Paul M. Demkowski, Robert Nunez
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Patent number: D943695Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Bill Price, Paul M. Demkowski, Robert Nunez
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Patent number: D966449Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Giancarlo Bruschi, Paul M. Demkowski, Gustavo Eduardo Alisio, Bill Price, Robert Nunez
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Patent number: D985082Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Jonathan Dreitlein, Bill Price, Robert Nunez
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Patent number: D1034862Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Giancarlo Bruschi, Paul M. Demkowski, Gustavo Eduardo Alisio, Bill Price, Robert Nunez
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Patent number: D1052670Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Jonathan Dreitlein, Bill Price, Robert Nunez