ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,960, issued on May 20, was assigned to INMARKET B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).
"Body part pad" was invented by Martijn Schaaper (Monster, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Body part pad for protecting a double curved body part from external load. The body part pad comprises a flexible carrying dish which in a first bending direction is bendable about a first bending axis and which in a second bending direction is bendable about a second bending axis. The carrying dish comprises a multiplicity of segments of which adjacent segment parts are disposed with an intermediate distance. The intermediate distance of adjacent segment part...