ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 27 -- Acushnet, Fairhaven, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (9,656,127) developed by six co-inventors for "golf balls having foam center containing clay particulate." The co-inventors are Mark L. Binette, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, Brian Comeau, Berkley, Massachusetts, Michael Michalewich, Mansfield, Massachusetts, Shawn Ricci, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Michael J. Sullivan, Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Douglas S. Goguen, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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