US Patent Issued to TREK BICYCLE on May 19 for "Cycling helmet with an energy diverting layer" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,896, issued on May 19, was assigned to TREK BICYCLE Corp. (Waterloo, Wis.).

"Cycling helmet with an energy diverting layer" was invented by Alan Baryudin (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet includes an energy absorbing layer. The energy absorbing layer includes a secondary magnetic material that is at least partially embedded in the energy absorbing layer. The helmet also includes a slidable energy diverting layer that acts as an external shell of the helmet. A pocket is mounted to an interior surface of the slidable energy diverting layer, where the pocket includes a primary magnetic material. An attraction between...