US Patent Issued to Final Forge on Feb. 17 for "Helmet having visor pivoting and locking mechanism and associated system and methods" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,964, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Final Forge LLC (Blountville, Tenn.).

"Helmet having visor pivoting and locking mechanism and associated system and methods" was invented by David Rogers (Blountville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet visor system may include a helmet shaped to accommodate a headset, a visor lens and a visor apparatus to pivotally move the visor lens between a stored position and a deployed position. The deployed position may be defined as a majority of the visor lens being extended from the helmet, and the stored position may be defined as the majority of the visor lens being occluded by the helme...