US Patent Issued to BAUER HOCKEY on Oct. 6 for "Hockey goalkeeper leg pads" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,176, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC (Exeter, N.H.).

"Hockey goalkeeper leg pads" was invented by Charles Vaillancourt (Blainville, Canada) and Mathieu Poitras (Saint-Jerome, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hockey goalkeeper leg pads wearable on legs of a hockey goalkeeper to protect the legs, in which the hockey goalkeeper leg pads may be configured to enhance performance, comfort and/or other aspects of goalkeeping of the hockey goalkeeper, including when the hockey goalkeeper leg pads drop onto a playing surface (e.g., ice) to lie substantially horizontally on the playing surface with their front facing pla...