USBC uses four different lane oil machines in the research and testing center. USBC uses its Brunswick Authority 22 lane machine – the same type of machine the PBA currently uses to apply oil patterns for Denny's PBA Tour stops – to test and modify official PBA oil patterns to desired specifications.

USBC has two different lane machines from Kegel—the Sanction Standard Elite and the Kustodian ION—which are used for a variety of purposes from customizing lane patterns for USBC-sponsored tournaments to applying lane patterns for USBC's ball motion study. The AMF Summit is different from the other three since it is an older technology "pad" machine, a different type of technology than a typical brush machine.