ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,897, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dongguan City EON Sporting Goods Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Sawdust helmet and manufacturing method" was invented by Jiabing Fu (Dongguan, China) and Guoding Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sawdust helmet and a manufacturing method. The sawdust helmet comprises an outer housing; a buffer body containing sawdust is installed at the inner side of the outer housing; the buffer body is integrally formed, and the size of the buffer body is adapted with the size of the outer housing; a fabric inner cushion body is padded at the inner side of the...