US Patent Issued to Central Lake Armor Express on Sept. 23 for "Ballistic resistant panel edge enhanced integrity" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,226, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Central Lake Armor Express Inc. (Eden, N.C.).

"Ballistic resistant panel edge enhanced integrity" was invented by Robert Lee (Jermyn, Pa.), Travis Paul Holt (Rapid City, Mich.) and James Alan O'Neal (Bellaire, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballistic resistant panel assembly includes a plurality of ballistic resistant plies positioned in a stack. A binding layer which includes a first portion which extends along and overlies a first ply of the stack; a second portion extends from the first portion and extends along peripheral edges of the plurality of the ballistic resistant plies; an...