ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,151, issued on July 22.
"Method for producing a body protection item and resulting body protection item" was invented by Javier Cadens Ballarin (Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain) and Xavier Mateu Codina (Matadepera, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing method of a body protection and resulting body protection, wherein the method comprises producing a structural shell (10) with a maximum thickness of 5 mm, made of thermoplastic material, and defining a concave interior (11) and a convex exterior (12); over-moulding an expanded polystyrene layer (20) overlapping the concave interior (11) of the structural shell (10), producin...