US Patent Issued to VICIS IP on Sept. 9 for "Supplemental impact mitigation structures for a helmet" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,720, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VICIS IP LLC (New York).

"Supplemental impact mitigation structures for a helmet" was invented by Per Reinhall (Seattle), Kurt Fischer (New York), Cord Santiago (New York), Travis E. Glover (Seattle), Valerie Carricaburu (Seattle), Adam Frank (New York), Andre H. P. Stone (New York), Jason Neubauer (Seattle) and Dave Marver (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet includes an outer shell with an inner and outer surface, a first impact mitigation layer of a first stiffness coupled to the inner surface of the outer shell, a supplemental shell coupled to the outer surface of the outer she...