ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,300, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VERCO MATERIALS LLC (Atlanta).
"Compact rifle protection ballistic shield" was invented by Robert F. Speyer (Atlanta), John A. Shupe (Atlanta), Gabriel Todd (Atlanta) and Christian B. Schneider (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rollable armor panel, and a rollable ballistic shield that includes the rollable armor panel is described. The rollable armor panel includes an adhesive-coated first ballistic fabric, a plurality of ballistic tiles arranged on and attached to one side of the first ballistic fabric, and a lattice arrangement of adhesive-coated ballistic fabric attached to the ball...