Patents by Inventor Michael R. Nicolette

Michael R. Nicolette 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).

  • Publication number: 20250144484
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion, a first interior cavity portion, and a face portion, which includes a back surface with a face perimeter portion, a ridge portion extending from the face perimeter portion, and a wall portion coupled to the ridge portion and extending outward from the ridge portion to define a second interior cavity portion in the body portion. The golf club head further includes a first filler material and a second filler material. The first interior cavity portion is at least partially filled with the first filler material, and the second interior cavity portion is at least partially filled with the second filler material. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12290725
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, a face portion, and a periphery. The bottom portion may include a forward portion and a rear protrusion at or proximate the rear portion. The rear protrusion may project downward from the periphery and extend longitudinally in a rear-to-front direction. The rear protrusion may include a front-side portion. A toe-side portion may extend rearwardly from the front-side portion towards the rear portion. The rear protrusion may also include a heel-side portion extending rearwardly from the front-side portion towards the rear portion. A weight port may be defined by the rear protrusion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Patent number: 12290724
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion with an interior cavity, an upper back wall portion, a lower back wall portion, a ledge portion extending from the upper back wall portion to the lower back wall portion, an upper back wall portion thickness, and a lower back wall portion thickness. The golf club head may further include a first mass portion below the ledge portion, a second mass portion above the ledge portion, a polymer material in the interior cavity, a first width of the interior cavity above the ledge portion, a second width of the interior cavity below the ledge portion and above the lower back wall portion thickness, and a third width of the interior cavity below the second width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert
  • Patent number: 12285660
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion. The top portion may include a heel-side top portion, a toe-side top portion, and a raised central top portion between the heel-side top portion and toe-side top portion. The top portion may include a toe-side integral rib and a heel-side integral rib. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Patent number: 12257485
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a back portion with a back wall portion. The back wall portion includes at least one rib portion having a curved portion located between a center portion of the back wall portion and a perimeter portion of the body portion. The at least one rib portion has a rib portion height, a rib portion width, and a rib portion length. The rib portion width or the rib portion height may vary along the rib portion length. The golf club head also includes a filler material in the body portion coupled to the at least one rib portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12251607
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion being hollow to define an interior cavity, a filler material in the interior cavity, a face portion, and a back portion having a back wall portion. The back wall portion includes a first external ledge portion and a second external ledge portion, and a perimeter groove below the external ledge portion. The golf club head also includes a removable mass portion coupled to the back wall portion. The face portion includes a back surface with a perimeter portion, a face recess portion and a back groove portion in the face recess portion. The filler material is coupled to the face recess portion and the back groove portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert
  • Publication number: 20250073545
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a back portion with a back wall portion. The back wall portion includes at least one rib portion having a curved portion located between a center portion of the back wall portion and a perimeter portion of the body portion. The at least one rib portion has a rib portion height, a rib portion width, and a rib portion length. The rib portion width or the rib portion height may vary along the rib portion length. The golf club head also includes a filler material in the body portion coupled to the at least one rib portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12233319
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a hollow body portion having a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, a rear portion, and a front portion having a face portion. A first interior cavity is separated from a second interior cavity by a cavity wall portion. The cavity wall portion includes a forward wall section, a rearward wall section positioned further from the face portion that the forward wall section, and an intermediate portion positioned between the forward wall section and the rearward wall section. At least one of the forward wall section or the rearward wall section of the cavity wall portion is non-parallel to the face portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Patent number: 12214266
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a bottom portion, a top portion, and a crown portion covering an opening in the top portion. The crown portion may include an inner composite layer, an outer composite layer, and a toe-side integral rib disposed between the inner composite layer and the outer composite layer. The toe-side integral rib may extend rearward from a toe-side integral rib starting location between a vertical plane of the golf club and a toe-side golf ball plane and terminate at a toe-side integral rib ending location between a toe-side bounding plane and the toe-side golf ball plane. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Publication number: 20250018259
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a back portion with a back wall portion. The back wall portion includes at least one rib portion extending from a center portion of the back wall portion toward a perimeter portion of the back wall portion. The at least one rib portion includes a rib portion height, a rib portion width, and a rib portion length. The golf club head also includes a filler material in the hollow body portion coupled to the rib portion. The rib portion width may vary along the rib portion length. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12194351
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a back portion with a back wall portion. The back wall portion includes at least one rib portion extending from a center portion of the back wall portion toward a perimeter portion of the back wall portion. The at least one rib portion includes a rib portion height, a rib portion width, and a rib portion length. The golf club head also includes a filler material in the hollow body portion coupled to the rib portion. The rib portion width may vary along the rib portion length. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12194352
    Abstract: Examples of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a body portion of a golf club head may include a front portion. A face portion may be located at the front portion and may include a central projection located at or proximate a geometric center of the face portion and a plurality of outer projections disposed at different distances from the central projection. For each and every combination of any two outer projections of the plurality of outer projections, a lesser volume is associated with whichever one of the two outer projections is located closest to the central projection and a greater volume is associated with whichever one of the two outer projections is located farthest from the central projection. Other examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Patent number: 12194349
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion and a face portion. The body portion includes an interior cavity having a lower cavity portion extending from a location proximate to a sole portion edge of the body portion toward a top portion edge of the body portion and an upper cavity portion extending from a location proximate to the top portion edge toward the sole portion edge. The face portion includes a front surface and a back surface. A filler material in the interior cavity includes a lower filler portion in the lower cavity portion and an upper filler portion in the upper cavity portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert
  • Publication number: 20250010150
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes body portion having an interior portion and an exterior portion, a first mass portion coupled to the exterior portion of the body portion below a horizontal midplane of the body portion, and a second mass portion coupled to the interior portion of the body portion. The second mass portion is located proximate to a toe portion edge of the body portion and has a shape at least partially corresponding to a shape of a portion of the toe portion edge. The second mass portion increases in mass in a top-to-sole direction, and more than 50% of the mass of the second mass portion is below the horizontal midplane. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: 12179072
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion and a face portion attached to the body portion that comprises a center portion having a first thickness, a perimeter portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, spoke portions extending radially from the center portion to the perimeter portion, and recessed portions. Each recessed portion is located between two spoke portions, and each recessed portion extends from the center portion to the perimeter portion. The thickness of each spoke portion increases from the first thickness to the second thickness in a direction from the center portion to the perimeter portion, and each recessed portion has the first thickness from the center portion to the perimeter portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PARSONS EXTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Caleb S. Kroloff
  • Publication number: 20240424363
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion including a toe portion edge, a heel portion edge, a face portion, an interior portion, and first and second ports connected to the interior portion; a mass portion; and a filler material between the face portion and the mass portion. The mass portion has a different shape than the first port or the second port, a distance between the second port and the toe portion edge is greater than a distance between the mass portion and the toe portion edge, and a distance between the first port and the heel portion edge is greater than a distance between the second port and the heel portion edge. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Parsons, Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: D1059525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: D1060566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Kirtley, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Patent number: D1062953
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert, Daniel C. Kirtley
  • Patent number: D1064151
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel C. Kirtley, Michael R. Nicolette