ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,975, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ampac Enterprises Inc. (Shirley, Mass.).
"Protective headgear" was invented by Stanley Jurga Jr. (Shirley, Mass.), Austin Rodrick (Ashburnham, Mass.) and Shyan Wei Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides improved protective headgear. The protective headgear includes a front shell attached to a back shell, where the front shell includes a crown portion, a forehead portion, opposite side face portions, and a jaw portion, and a shock absorbing member attached to the forehead portion and/or the jaw portion. The crown portion may include a padding inser...