US Patent Issued to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies on June 16 for "Multi-layer wearable body armor" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,087, issued on June 16, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Multi-layer wearable body armor" was invented by Christian G. Barr (Kansas City, Mo.), David Lee Manglos (Kansas City, Mo.) and Justin Tannehill (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer body armor plate includes a strike plate; a mesh layer positioned over the strike plate, the mesh layer having a number of open cells; and an outer skin layer positioned over the mesh layer so as to encapsulate the open cells of the mesh layer between the strike plate and the outer skin layer. The open cells of the mesh...