US Patent Issued to LES EQUIPEMENTS DE GARDIEN DE BUT MICHEL LEFEBVRE on Oct. 27 for "Hockey goalie leg pad with toe bridge member for engaging a goal post" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,617, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LES EQUIPEMENTS DE GARDIEN DE BUT MICHEL LEFEBVRE ULC (Calgary, Canada).

"Hockey goalie leg pad with toe bridge member for engaging a goal post" was invented by Patrick Lefebvre (Mascouche, Canada), Sebastien Morin (Mascouche, Canada) and Maverick Charles (Mascouche, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hockey goalie leg pad has a front pad member securable to a lower leg, and a toe bridge member depending downwardly, for example by at least 1.5 inches, from a bottom of the front pad member such that an intermediate front face portion of the toe bridge member is recessed from the front botto...