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Charles E. Golden — 172 Patents

ACAcushnet: 161 patents #9 of 496Top 2%
TCTaylor Made Golf Company: 4 patents #134 of 288Top 50%
CICobra Golf Incorporated: 2 patents #48 of 93Top 55%
Encinitas, CA: #6 of 1,440 inventorsTop 1%
California: #771 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,698 of 4,157,543Top 1%
172 Patents All Time
Charles E. Golden has been granted 172 US patents while listed as an inventor at Acushnet. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in November 2025. Charles E. Golden ranks #4,698 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.11%). Patent records list Charles E. Golden in Encinitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 28 patents in 2012.peak 282003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 9 patents2012: 28 patents20122013: 19 patents2014: 20 patents20142015: 11 patents2016: 10 patents20162017: 11 patents2018: 8 patents20182019: 10 patents2020: 5 patents20202021: 5 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 10 patents2024: 6 patents20242025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 172 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12478846 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Marni D. Ines, Oswaldo Gonzalez, John Morin, Jason A. Mata, Jonathan Hebreo +1 more 2025-11-25
12458853 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Joshua G. Breier, Marni D. Ines, Richard L. Cleghorn 2025-11-04
12440733 Method of forming a golf club head with improved inertia performance Ryuichi Sugimae, Darryl C. Galvan, Stephen S. Murphy, Peter L. Larsen, Richard L. Cleghorn 2025-10-14
12420153 Shaft for golf club Dustin A. Barksdale, Donald S. Bone, Noah de la Cruz, Steven S. Ogg, Parker Rosquist 2025-09-23
12397206 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Ryuichi Sugimae, Peter L. Larsen, Stephen S. Murphy, Scott A. Knutson, Joey Ashcroft +6 more 2025-08-26
12377329 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Kyle A. Carr 2025-08-05
12285663 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Thomas Orrin Bennett, Stephen S. Murphy, Peter L. Soracco 2025-04-29
12220620 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Ryuichi Sugimae, Joey Ashcroft, Richard L. Cleghorn, Gregory D. Johnson, Gentry Ferguson +4 more 2025-02-11
12145038 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control John Morin, Oswaldo Gonzalez, Jonathan Hebreo, Marni D. Ines, Gery M. Zimmerman +2 more 2024-11-19
12115419 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Joey Ashcroft, Richard L. Cleghorn, Gregory D. Johnson, Gentry Ferguson, Peter L. Soracco +3 more 2024-10-15
12109460 Laser contrasted golf club head and manufacturing process Uday V. Deshmukh, Alan Hocknell, Taylor F. Linkenhelt, Stephanie Luttrell 2024-10-08
12064674 Wedge golf club fitting system Kevin Tassistro, John Morin 2024-08-20
12036448 Iron with sole slot Doug M. Takehara, Grant M. Martens, Richard L. Cleghorn, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Sang Yi +2 more 2024-07-16
11938387 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Grant M. Martens, Gentry Ferguson, Kyle A. Carr, Jonathan Hebreo, Jason A. Mata +1 more 2024-03-26
11839797 Multi-material golf club head Grant M. Martens, Uday V. Deshmukh, Scott A. Knutson 2023-12-12
11826620 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Marni D. Ines, Jonathan Hebreo, Oswaldo Gonzalez, Grant M. Martens, Doug M. Takehara +3 more 2023-11-28
11801428 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Marni D. Ines, Christopher Savage, Grant M. Martens, Gentry Ferguson, John Morin +4 more 2023-10-31
11794080 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control Marni D. Ines, Grant M. Martens, Oswaldo Gonzalez, Gentry Ferguson, John Morin 2023-10-24
11786789 Golf club having a damping element for ball speed control John Morin, Jason A. Mata, Jonathan Hebreo, Michael E. Franz, Grant M. Martens +2 more 2023-10-17
11752405 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Ryuichi Sugimae, Peter L. Larsen, Stephen S. Murphy, Scott A. Knutson, Joey Ashcroft +6 more 2023-09-12
11725921 Device for identifying center of striking face of a wood-type golf club head Scott A. Knutson, Joseph John Van Wezenbeeck 2023-08-15
11724166 Golf club having damping treatments for improved impact acoustics and ball speed Michael E. Franz, Jonathan Hebreo, Brian Comeau 2023-08-15
11701559 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Thomas Orrin Bennett, Stephen S. Murphy, Peter L. Soracco 2023-07-18
11577131 Golf club head with improved inertia performance Ryuichi Sugimae, Joey Ashcroft, Richard L. Cleghorn, Gregory D. Johnson, Gentry Ferguson +4 more 2023-02-14
11497970 Golf club head with improved inertia performance and removable aft body coupled by snap fit connection Sang Yi, Peter L. Larsen, Stephen S. Murphy, Scott A. Knutson, Joey Ashcroft +7 more 2022-11-15