ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,270, issued on April 8, was assigned to Riddell Inc. (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"Position specific protective sports helmet" was invented by Vittorio Bologna (Des Plaines, Ill.), Murphy Gillogly (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Thad M. Ide (Des Plaines, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a protective sports helmet purposely designed using a multi-step method for a selected group of helmet wearers from amongst a larger population of helmet wearers. The protective sports helmet can be a position specific American football helmet that includes a shell, a facemask coupled to the shell, and an energy attenuation assembly config...