ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,765, issued on April 1.
"Protective garment" was invented by Ryan Bartlett Reid (Imperial, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a protective garment for preventing or lessening injury from an external source to a user includes creating a laminate, wherein the laminate includes an outer non-puncture resistant layer, an inner non-puncture resistant layer, and a puncture resistant textile layer sandwiched between the outer non-puncture resistant layer and the inner non-puncture resistant layer. The method also includes cutting a pattern associated with a desired garment from the laminate, sewing a first edge of the ...