US Patent Issued to SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS on Sept. 30 for "Bicycle helmet with eyewear retention" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,661, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS INC. (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

"Bicycle helmet with eyewear retention" was invented by Allen Albert Bischofberger (Ben Lomond, Calif.), Luiz Felipe de Melo Dias (Minas Gerais, Brazil), Alexander Hart Jerome (Morgan Hill, Calif.), David Tyler Debus (Felton, Calif.) and Christopher Thomas Pietrzak (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle helmet adapted to be used with eyewear includes an impact-absorbing body, a resilient wiper, and an alignment feature. The impact-absorbing body has a convex exterior surface and a concave interior surface adapt...