US Patent Issued to Point Blank Enterprises on April 7 for "Stitched body armor panels with offset construction" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,988, issued on April 7, was assigned to Point Blank Enterprises Inc. (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

"Stitched body armor panels with offset construction" was invented by Martha Johnson (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Randall Jered LeMarbe (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft body armor arrangement has a plurality of layers of soft ballistic material stacked on one another, each layer comprising a plurality of sub-layers of ballistic material. Each of the layers has a respective seam line attaching two or more respective sections of the layer. The sizes of the section are varied so that the resultant seam lines of adjacent lay...