US Patent Issued to Membrain Safety Solutions on Sept. 22 for "Machine vendible expandable helmet and manufacture of same" (Michigan, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,611, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Membrain Safety Solutions LLC (Los Angeles).

"Machine vendible expandable helmet and manufacture of same" was invented by Jaron Rothkop (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kenneth B. Hertz (Los Angeles) and Isis Alexandra Shiffer (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle helmet that fits over a surface of a head of a user generally includes a segment of flexible cell structures that form a radial honeycomb matrix movable between a folded condition where each side of the segment is disposed generally parallel and an expanded use position where the radial honeycomb matrix of the segment is confi...