US Patent Issued to Lisa Ferrara on March 11 for "Composite devices and methods for providing protection against traumatic tissue injury" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,647, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lisa Ferrara (Hendersonville, N.C.).

"Composite devices and methods for providing protection against traumatic tissue injury" was invented by Lisa Ferrara (Hendersonville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles including protective gear for a variety of sports and activities provide protection from one or both of linear and angular forces that either directly or indirectly impact the gear when it is donned. The articles include at least two layers of material that provide multimodal energy dissipation to minimize the extent of transmission of impact forces to tissue."

The patent was fi...