US Patent Issued to Bell Sports on March 17 for "Cycling helmet with rotational impact attenuation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,630, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bell Sports Inc. (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

"Cycling helmet with rotational impact attenuation" was invented by Paul A. Kele (Soquel, Calif.) and David T. Debus (Felton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet having an outer liner with an inward-facing surface, an inner liner with an outward-facing surface that interfaces with the inward-facing surface of the outer liner, and a flexible tether coupling the outer liner to the inner. The inner liner is slidably coupled to the outer liner via a plurality of return springs, the plurality of return springs biasing the inner liner to a first ...