ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,265, issued on April 8, was assigned to Klein Tools Inc. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Safety helmet" was invented by Shantanu Deshpande (Glenview, Ill.) and Kingston Wong (Beach Park, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety helmet includes an outer shell having a front receptacle disposed on a front side of the outer shell and a rear receptacle disposed on a rear side of the outer shell. A first accessory device having a first mating receptacle formed thereon is releasably mountable onto each of the front receptacle or the rear receptacle of the outer shell, and a second accessory device having a second mating receptacle formed thereo...