ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,071, issued on April 29, was assigned to MSA Technology LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for providing an assembly for releasably connecting an inner helmet and outer helmet shell" was invented by Kevin R. Ketterer (Portersville, Pa.) and David J. Losos (Evans City, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a helmet shell mounting assembly. A system includes a mounting component and a locking slider configured to interface with the mounting component when the locking slider is in an engaged position to secure an outer helmet shell to an inner helmet. In another embodiment, the system al...