A63B 37/0018
Specified number of dimples
Official title: {Specified number of dimples}
A63B37/0018 (Specified number of dimples) appears on 631 US grants and 623 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 631
- Published applications
- 623
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 312
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 8 | 5 |
| 2002 | 17 | 27 |
| 2003 | 24 | 32 |
| 2004 | 30 | 29 |
| 2005 | 24 | 27 |
| 2006 | 22 | 23 |
| 2007 | 30 | 26 |
| 2008 | 26 | 23 |
| 2009 | 26 | 17 |
| 2010 | 11 | 56 |
| 2011 | 12 | 27 |
| 2012 | 19 | 19 |
| 2013 | 31 | 35 |
| 2014 | 31 | 27 |
| 2015 | 15 | 25 |
| 2016 | 21 | 30 |
| 2017 | 26 | 19 |
| 2018 | 27 | 24 |
| 2019 | 22 | 25 |
| 2020 | 23 | 31 |
| 2021 | 27 | 14 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024 | 4 | 11 |
| 2025 | 8 | 43 |
| 2026 | 5 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Golf ball301US 4,560,168 AWilson Sporting Goods Co. · 1985
- Three-piece solid golf ball221US 5,782,707 ABridgestone Sports Co.Ltd. · 1998
- 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