ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,954, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TYR Tactical LLC (Peoria, Ariz.).
"Flexible body armor" was invented by Jason Beck (Peoria, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described and claimed herein provide a ballistic filler for a flexible soft body armor and methods of manufacturing the same. In one implementation, a first portion having a first subpanel is stitched directly to a second subpanel with a stitching pattern. The first subpanel has one or more layers of woven fabric, and the second subpanel has one or more layers of unidirectional fabric. A second portion backs the first portion. The second portion has one ...