Patents by Inventor Sanjay Kuttappa
Sanjay Kuttappa 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: 20250213936Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2025Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20250121265Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Patent number: 12251606Abstract: An iron-type golf club head having a strike plate attached to a body and creating an internal cavity. The body includes an internal recess in a back portion and at least partially containing an internal tungsten weight that does not contact a back surface of the strike plate. The strike plate forms a part of a sole portion of the golf club head. An elastomer material is contained in the internal cavity and contacts the back portion and the back surface of the strike plate, and has a maximum elastomer material depth that is greater than a maximum thickness of the strike plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Patent number: 12172058Abstract: An iron-type golf club head having a strike plate attached to a body and creating an internal cavity. The body includes an internal recess in a back portion and at least partially containing an internal tungsten weight that does not contact a back surface of the strike plate. The strike plate forms a part of a sole portion of the golf club head. An elastomer material is contained in the internal cavity and contacts the back portion and the back surface of the strike plate, and has a maximum elastomer material depth that is greater than a maximum thickness of the strike plate. The elastomer material extends to an elastomer elevation that is greater than a maximum elevation of the internal weight.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20240181307Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20220331669Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Patent number: 11351426Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20210236887Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20210228945Abstract: A golf ball that includes at least one core, and a cover layer formed from a cast polyurethane or polyurea, wherein the cover layer defines a first surface area portion of a uniform first color and a second surface area portion of a uniform second color, and a seam between the first surface area portion and the second surface area portion, wherein the first color is different than the second color.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Eric Loper, Sanjay Kuttappa, Ben Raymond
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Patent number: 10953293Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20200188740Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Patent number: 10625126Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20140274446Abstract: A golf club-head can have a body having a crown, a heel, a toe, and a sole, the body defining a front opening; and a face plate closing the front opening of the body, the face plate comprising a lay-up of multiple, composite prepreg plies, wherein at least a portion of the plies comprise a plurality of elongated prepreg strips arranged in a crisscross pattern defining an overlapping region where the strips overlap each other. The face plate also includes an exterior and interior surface and having an image or indicia printed on the exterior surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Parker Drennan, Sanjay Kuttappa, Bing-Ling Chao
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Patent number: 7874940Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making golf balls by an extrusion molding process, particularly forming golf ball cores from an extrusion moldable composition. The present invention also relates to a golf ball having an extruded core, an outer cover layer and, optionally, one or more inner cover layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Hyun Kim, Dean A. Snell, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20100323818Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making golf balls by an extrusion molding process, particularly forming golf ball cores from an extrusion moldable composition. The present invention also relates to a golf ball having an extruded core, an outer cover layer and, optionally, one or more inner cover layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Inventors: Hyun Kim, Dean A. Snell, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20080176677Abstract: A golf ball including a polyurethane cover layer, a solid core, and one or more intermediate layers, and wherein the ball has a Sound Pressure Level, S, of less than 81.5 dB. In a further embodiment there is a golf ball including a polyurethane cover layer, a solid core, and one or more intermediate layers, and wherein the ball has a Sound Pressure Level, S, of less than 81.5 dB and wherein S meets the following inequality; S<?0.032143F+189.5; where F is the golf ball frequency in Hz. In an additional embodiment disclosed is a golf ball including a polyurethane cover layer, a solid core, and one or more intermediate layers, and wherein the ball has a Sound Pressure Level, S, of less than 81.5 dB and wherein S meets the following inequality; S<?0.01F+112; where F is the golf ball frequency in Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventors: Dean A. Snell, Sanjay Kuttappa, Eric Loper
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Publication number: 20070015605Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making golf balls by an extrusion molding process, particularly forming golf ball cores from an extrusion moldable composition. The present invention also relates to a golf ball having an extruded core, an outer cover layer and, optionally, one or more inner cover layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Hyun Kim, Dean Snell, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Publication number: 20050009639Abstract: A urethane-covered three-piece golf ball with a liquid-filled center, having a combination of center weight, thread windings, dimple configuration and compression that allows it to travel great distances, and to match the classic feel of ‘Balata’ balls, said combination at the same time complying with USGA regulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: John Calabria, Sanjay Kuttappa, Matthew Stanczak, Jens John, George Wallace, Lane Lemons
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Patent number: 6811498Abstract: A two piece golf ball has a core compression in the range of 75 PGA to 89 PGA, a core diameter in the range of about 1.535 inches to 1.545 inches, a cover hardness in the range of 42 to 60 Shore D, and a dimple pattern based on the geometry of a icosahedron. An uninterrupted equatorial great circle path, corresponding to a mold parting line, is provided in the design for forming a cover of the golf ball in two parts. A ball having such characteristics exhibits superior distance performance without compromising shot-making feel.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2001Date of Patent: November 2, 2004Assignee: Dunlop Maxfli SportsInventors: Brent D. Emerson, George R. Wallace, Matthew B. Stanczak, Sanjay Kuttappa
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Patent number: 6572494Abstract: The golf ball comprises all known cores provided with a cover produced by a polymer blend that combines the durability of a conventional cover with the feel of a traditional balata cover having a plurality of dimples in a modified dodecahedron pattern. The dodecahedron consists of twelve pentagons, which are subdivided into a total of sixty triangles. The triangles are then further subdivided into rows into which various diameter dimples are placed. The dimple pattern can be arranged to produce a pattern of ten great circles, which are free of dimples. The cover formulation is a blend of various ethylene/methacrylic acid copolymers wherein at least one copolymer has a high modulus and at least one copolymer has a moderate modulus forming a miscible blend having a PDI index that maximizes durability while still maintaining feel and playability.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Dunlop Slazenger ManufacturingInventors: Brent D. Emerson, George R. Wallace, Matthew B. Stanczak, Sanjay Kuttappa