ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,997, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tech 21 Licensing Ltd. (Twickenham, Great Britain).

"Method of making a protective glove" was invented by James Alexander Gardner (Richmond, Great Britain) and Haim Geva (Richmond, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a protective glove. The method comprises forming a glove body (2) from flexible material, with a front layer and a rear layer with an opening between the layers to allow access for the hand into an internal space within the glove. A last (3) is inserted into the glove body (2) to stretch the glove body and to hold the rear layer in the stretched form wi...