ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,028, issued on June 17.
"Composite material" was invented by John Phillip Sundnes (Karaka, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material (10) comprising: a base layer (48); a plurality of protective plates (41, 51, 51a, 51b) located on the base layer (48); an attaching means (43) to connect the base layer (48) to the protective plates (41), whereinthe attaching means (43) is positioned along a first direction (46) on the base layer (48) to resist pivoting of each protective plate (41, 51, 51a, 51b) about an axis normal to the base layer (48)."
The patent was filed on Feb. 27, 2019, under Application No. 16/976,014....