US Patent Issued to BAUER HOCKEY on Sept. 29 for "Sports equipment with alterable characteristic" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,442, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BAUER HOCKEY LLC (Exeter, N.H.).

"Sports equipment with alterable characteristic" was invented by Mathieu Ducharme (Prevost, Canada), Ivan Labonte (Montreal), Alexis Seguin (Laval, Canada), Jean-Francois Corbeil (Prevost, Canada), Edouard Rouzier (Montreal) and Yannick Paquette (Lasalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles of sports equipment, such as striking implements (e.g., sticks) and wearable articles (e.g., skates, helmets) for playing hockey or other activities, in which at least one of the characteristics (e.g., stiffness) of the articles of sports equipment is adaptable a...