A63B 37/0007
Non-circular dimples
Official title: {Non-circular dimples}
A63B37/0007 (Non-circular dimples) appears on 427 US grants and 435 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 427
- Published applications
- 435
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 219
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 6 | 10 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Dimple patterns for golf balls18 Aug 2026US 12,708,817 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball having non-spherical dimples3 Feb 2026US 12,539,449 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball dimple plan shape defined by Clausen function20 Jan 2026US 12,527,994 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball dimple profile defined by modified cycloid curve28 Oct 2025US 12,453,905 B2Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls21 Oct 2025US 12,447,379 B2Acushnet Company
- Golf ball dimple plan shape defined by superposed functions16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199739 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf ball dimple plan shape defined by a roulette11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158331 A1Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls5 Feb 2026US 2026/0034407 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf balls having improved short game performance15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014425 A1Acushnet Company
- Golf ball having non-planar parting line11 Sep 2025US 2025/0281802 A1Acushnet Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Golf ball having annular dimples187US 5,957,787 AWoohak Leispia Inc. · 1999
- Multi-purpose golf ball117US 4,991,852 A1991
- Phyllotaxis-based dimple patterns117US 6,338,684 B12002
- Golf ball109US 4,090,716 AUniroyal, Inc. · 1978
- Golf ball with non-circular shaped dimples109US 6,409,615 B1The Procter & Gamble Company · 2002