ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,224, issued on June 17, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).
"Active neck protection system" was invented by Antonio Perez Acal (Taufkirchen, Germany), Alasdair Cook (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Isabel Tannert (Taufkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neck protection system includes a support structure, helmet, force transmission arrangement, actuator arrangement, sensor arrangement, and controller. The force transmission arrangement is coupled to the support structure and the helmet and applies a relative force between them. The actuator arrangement applies a load to the force transmission...