ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,126, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Riddell Inc. (Des Plaines, Ill.).
"System and method for testing a football 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 for a selected group of helmet wearers from amongst a larger population of helmet wearers. A multi-step method for helmet design starts by collecting information from a population of players that may include information about the shape of a player's head and the impacts the player has sust...