ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,608, issued on June 9, was assigned to RLF MONTANA LLC (Whitefish, Mont.).
"Hearing protection apparatus" was invented by Ryan Louis Frampton (Whitefish, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing protection apparatus has a pair of assemblies, each assembly including a body, an attachment facility connected to the body and configured to removably receive a lower edge of a hat, a retractable tether extending from the body and having a free end, and an earplug attached to the free end of the retractable tether. The attachment facility may be a clip defining an upwardly open channel. There may be a hat having opposed right and left e...