US Patent Issued to MIPS on March 25 for "Helmet" (Chinese, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,796, issued on March 25, was assigned to MIPS AB (Taby, Sweden).

"Helmet" was invented by Christopher Pietrzak (Taby, Sweden), Jack Liu (Yangchun, China), Steven Wang (Yangchun, China) and Saman Xie (Yangchun, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet comprising first and second parts and a connector connecting the first and second parts of the helmet, the connector comprising: a first plate; a first anchor point on one side of the first plate, configured to be connected to the first part; a second plate located on an opposite side of the first plate from the first anchor point; a second anchor point on an opposite side of the s...