A63B 37/0012
Dimple profile, i.e. cross-sectional view
Official title: {Dimple profile, i.e. cross-sectional view}
A63B37/0012 (Dimple profile, i.e. cross-sectional view) appears on 555 US grants and 585 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 585
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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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 ball7 Jul 2026US 12,673,241 B2Acushnet Company
- Multi-piece solid golf ball2 Jun 2026US 12,643,015 B2Bridgestone Sports Co.Ltd.
- 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 having dimple profiles defined by staircase function20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241234 A1Acushnet 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
- Golf ball dimples defined by superposed curve with decaying feature12 Feb 2026US 2026/0041966 A1Acushnet Company
- Dimple patterns for golf balls5 Feb 2026US 2026/0034407 A1Acushnet Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Golf ball301US 4,560,168 AWilson Sporting Goods Co. · 1985
- Golf ball having annular dimples187US 5,957,787 AWoohak Leispia Inc. · 1999
- Golf ball185US 5,575,477 AIlya Co. Ltd. · 1996
- Golf ball with an aerodynamic surface on a polyurethane cover146US 6,213,898 B1Callaway Golf Company · 2001
- Golf ball with improved flight performance122US 6,729,976 B2Acushnet Company · 2004