A63B 37/0003
Golf balls
Official title: {Golf balls}
A63B37/0003 (Golf balls) appears on 4,888 US grants and 4,913 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 4,888
- Published applications
- 4,913
- Assignees
- 327
- Inventors
- 1,683
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 88 | 140 |
| 2026 | 55 | 68 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Golf ball including hybrid core formed via three-dimensional printing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,161 B2Acushnet Company
- Rubber composition and crosslinked rubber molded product6 Oct 2026US 12,753,296 B2Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Method and system utilizing imaging analysis for golf balls8 Sep 2026US 12,728,319 B1Callaway Golf Company
- Golf balls having reduced distance25 Aug 2026US 12,714,916 B2Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls18 Aug 2026US 12,708,817 B2Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306912 A1Acushnet Company
- Ball and monitoring system for miniature golf course1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295355 A1
- Golf ball24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284478 A1Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
- Multi-piece solid golf ball17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273347 A1Bridgestone Sports Co.Ltd.
- Systems and methods for providing a putting training and practice device for improving putting accuracy by reducing variance10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263893 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Polyurethane golf ball703US 5,334,673 AAcushnet Company · 1994
- Polyurea composition suitable for a golf ball cover525US 5,484,870 AAcushnet Company · 1996
- Golf ball and method of making same449US 5,803,831 ALisco, Inc. · 1998
- Multilayer golf ball with a thin thermoset outer layer435US 5,885,172 AAcushnet Company · 1999
- Multilayer golf ball433US 5,688,191 AAcushnet Company · 1997