ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,714, issued on March 24, was assigned to Central Lake Armor Express (Eden, N.C.).

"Ballistic resistant panel edge enhanced integrity" was invented by Robert Lee (Jermyn, Pa.), Travis Paul Holt (Rapid City, Mich.) and James Alan O'Neal (Bellaire, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballistic resistant panel assembly, which includes a plurality of ballistic resistant plies positioned in a stack. Further including: a binding layer having a first portion which extends along and overlying a first ply, a second portion which extends from the first portion and along peripheral edges of a less than all of the plurality of ballistic resis...