US Patent Issued to STRATEGIC SPORTS on Sept. 1 for "Oblique impact protection technology, helmet containing, sports equipment containing, and process therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,396, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STRATEGIC SPORTS Ltd. (Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong).

"Oblique impact protection technology, helmet containing, sports equipment containing, and process therefor" was invented by Tien Hou Cheng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Michael Ming-Jae Lin (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oblique-impact protection technology member (20) contains a layer (50) of closed cell foam containing a first surface (52), a second surface (54), and a plurality of wells (56) on the first surface (52). The first surface (52) contains a plurality of first surface apertures (58) and the first surface aperture...