US Patent Issued to ZUFFA on April 7 for "Mixed martial arts equipment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,484, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZUFFA LLC (Las Vegas).

"Mixed martial arts equipment" was invented by Jason Neubauer (Sammamish, Wash.), Noah Lanphear (Seattle) and Ryan Savage (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fighting glove includes a first padding section and a second padding section disposed in a dorsal side of a user's hand, and a strapping section configured to secure the glove to the user's hand. The first padding section includes multiple impact absorption layers, multiple slip layers, and a contour layer, which are each partially bonded to each other. In particular, the hand regions of the layers are s...