ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,363, issued on July 21, was assigned to MONOPRO LTD. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Collapsible helmet and corresponding production method" was invented by Omer Wax (Raanana, Israel), Menachem Guttman (Raanana, Israel) and Benjamin Gal (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible helmet is formed as an arcuate layered structure openable into a honeycomb protective configuration. The arcuate layered structure is formed from a number of arcuate segments each covering only part of the helmet. Each segment is oriented so that an extensional cell direction of the honeycomb structure is radial for a middle-region. The arcuate layer...