US Patent Issued to INO Armor on Aug. 4 for "Silk pillow impact protection device" (Indiana, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,950, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INO Armor LLC (New York).

"Silk pillow impact protection device" was invented by Charles Maddock (New York), Grant Chapman (Indianapolis), Sean Kleinschmidt (Carmel, Ind.) and Ramon Yip Yip (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device that provides improved protection against damage to the underlying product. The protection device includes silk impact pillows that absorb energy from low or high impacts. The present disclosure provides the ability to adjust a plurality of attributes: 1) pillow stiffness, 2) cocoon density; and 3) cocoon height, to construct a pillow of a desire...