ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,588, issued on June 24, was assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC (Exeter, N.H.).
"Adjustable helmet" was invented by Jacques Durocher (St-Jerome, Canada), Marie-Claude Genereux (Ste-Therese, Canada), Hugo Martin (Montreal) and Charles-Antoine Desrochers (Prevost, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet for protecting a head of a user, in which the helmet is adjustable to adjust how it fits on the user's head, including by adjusting dimensions of the helmet independently from one another (e.g., adjusting the helmet longitudinally and laterally in independent ways) and/or having a self-adjusting padded interface with the user's head to ...