US Patent Issued to EASTON DIAMOND SPORTS on Dec. 9 for "Catcher's chest protector with grip elements for improved ball control" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,784, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to EASTON DIAMOND SPORTS LLC (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Catcher's chest protector with grip elements for improved ball control" was invented by Dmitry Rusakov (Montreal) and Allan Wong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chest protector may include a flexible panel configured to generally conform to a user's chest and abdominal regions, one or more retention elements connected to the flexible panel and positioned to hold the chest protector on the user, and one or more high-friction elements positioned on an anterior outer surface of the flexible panel, the one or more high-frictio...