US Patent Issued to BAUER HOCKEY on July 29 for "Athletic gear with a printed cover" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,430, issued on July 29, was assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC (Exeter, N.H.).

"Athletic gear with a printed cover" was invented by Lee Mackey (Prevost, Canada) and Pascal Martel (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of athletic gear, such as an article of protective athletic equipment (e.g., a leg pad, an arm pad, shoulder pads, a chest protector, or a protective glove), wearable by a user and comprising a core (e.g., comprising protective padding) and a cover that is disposed on the core and comprises synthetic material and a printed image (e.g., a digitally-printed image) on the synthetic material."

The patent was filed o...