April 5, 2006

MIAMI – Strategic Shaft Technologies, LC, announced that founder Dick Weiss has been issued three new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office that cover 56 claims for a new automated SST PURE® Shaft Alignment System. SST has the exclusive rights to commercialize all of Weiss's intellectual property rights.

"This is the next step in our gearing up faster equipment for use by the major club and shaft manufacturers around the world,” SST founder Dick Weiss said. “It is great that over 200 of the best professional players in the world use SST PURE shaft alignment in their club construction, but it is our goal to make SST PURE the standard for every club assembled around the world."

The new issuances bring the total number of patents and patents pending on the SST PURE technology to 51 worldwide, encompassing hundreds of patent claims. SST has also recently been issued patents in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Bangladesh.

"We developed the technology,” Weiss said. “We named shaft alignment PURE for Plane of Uniform REpeatability. We are securing our work with patents and legal rights so that SST can continue to protect the credibility of our growing network of SST PURE licensees around the world."

Using proprietary computer software and sensitive data-acquisition sensors, the SST PURE shaft alignment process analyzes the structural irregularities that exist to some degree in every golf shaft and locates the shaft's most stable orientation. By assembling the club with the shaft in its PURE orientation, off-line bending and twisting of the shaft are minimized and impact repeatability on the center of the clubface by the golfer improves up to 51 percent. The process can be performed on existing clubs, new clubs or new shafts - steel or graphite - from most major manufacturers.

Headquartered in Miami, Strategic Shaft Technologies, LC, was founded by Weiss, who was the creator of the SST PURE® process. The patented SST PURE process of club assembly - deemed in compliance with USGA standards - locates each shaft's irregularities and aligns the shaft to neutralize them, so that each club bends in the direction it should - straight down the target line. Upon having his shafts SST PURE aligned, a player receives a personalized computer printout confirming the process and an SST PURE shaft label for every shaft that has been PUREd. SST PURE is available through a network of custom clubmakers and manufacturers throughout the United States and internationally.

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SSTraight, DiSSTance, ConSSTant, HoneSSTy in clubmaking. You cannot be sure unless all of your shafts are SST PURE aligned and assembled.

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