ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,646, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to THUMBPRINT SOLUTIONS INC. (Stouffville, Canada).

"System for mitigating musculoskeletal stresses from head-related moments exerted on a person" was invented by Markus Hetzler (Stouffville, Canada), Steven Fischer (Kingston, Canada), Joan Stevenson (Kingston, Canada) and Susan Reid (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a stress mitigation system is provided for mitigating stresses in a wearer of a headgear configured to apply a load on the wearer that is offset from a CG of a wearer's head. The system includes a first and second cable segments, and a tensioning device. E...