A63B 37/0006
Arrangement or layout of dimples
Official title: {Arrangement or layout of dimples}
A63B37/0006 (Arrangement or layout of dimples) appears on 696 US grants and 676 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 696
- Published applications
- 676
- Assignees
- 72
- Inventors
- 297
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 10 | 42 |
| 2026 | 7 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Golf balls having reduced distance25 Aug 2026US 12,714,916 B2Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls18 Aug 2026US 12,708,817 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball28 Jul 2026US 12,691,336 B2Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
- Golf ball incorporating transition color region and method of making same28 Jul 2026US 12,691,337 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball7 Jul 2026US 12,673,241 B2Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306912 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf ball18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166384 A1Bridgestone Sports Co.Ltd.
- Golf ball dimple plan shape defined by a roulette11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158331 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf balls having reduced distance26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054134 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf ball dimples defined by superposed curve with decaying feature12 Feb 2026US 2026/0041966 A1Acushnet Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Golf ball301US 4,560,168 AWilson Sporting Goods Co. · 1985
- Golf ball dimple pattern212US 5,249,804 AKarsten Manufacturing Corporation · 1993
- Geodesic icosahedral golf ball dimple pattern210US 5,562,552 AWilson Sporting Goods Co. · 1996
- Golf balls comprising light stable materials and methods of making the same205US 6,835,794 B2Acushnet Company · 2004
- Golf ball having annular dimples187US 5,957,787 AWoohak Leispia Inc. · 1999