ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,432, issued on May 27, was assigned to ALPINESTARS RESEARCH S.P.A. (Maser, Italy).
"Wearable protection device" was invented by Giovanni Mazzarolo (Coste di Maser, Italy) and Lorenzo Nardo (Ponzano Veneto, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wearable protection device including at least one inflatable bag configured to assume alternately a rest configuration in a deflated state, and an active configuration in an inflated state, and inflation means in fluid communication with the inflatable bag and configured to introduce therein an inflation fluid once they have been triggered. The wearable protection device further includes at leas...