ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,091, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Safe Lite Defense LLC (Las Vegas).

"System and methods for assembling flexible body armor panels" was invented by Nick Groat (Las Vegas) and Cody Shafer (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A break-in machine for use in conditioning a flexible armor panel is described herein. The break-in machine includes a housing, an upper conditioning belt assembly, a lower conditioning belt assembly, and a drive assembly. The upper conditioning belt assembly includes a plurality of sprocketed conveyor rollers spaced along a longitudinal axis, and a first conditioning belt orientated around the plur...