Patents by Inventor Eric R. OLIVER

Eric R. OLIVER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12194367
    Abstract: An uncoupled anterior cranial shield is disclosed including a yoke configured to attach to support garment or integrated with the support garment and a suspended mask attached to the yoke and extending from the yoke so as to be disposed at least partially covering a face of an individual wearing the support garment. The suspended mask is free of force communicating persistent connection to a head of the wearer other than indirectly through the shoulder pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: VAULT PROTECTIVE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric R. Oliver
  • Publication number: 20230301387
    Abstract: A protective helmet includes an energy dissipative assembly including a conforming protective base adapted to directly contact and conform to a corresponding bony anatomical region of a wearer's head. A supported flexible suspended crown adapted to be affixed to the conforming protective base and configured to define a gap separating substantially all of the interior surface of the supported flexible suspended crown from contact with a corresponding anatomical crown region of the wearer when the helmet is donned by the wearer. The supported flexible suspended crown including at least one contoured flexible shell or a plurality of cantilevered members comprising a compliant energy dissipating material that, when impacted, undergoes deformation to an extent that is greater than deformation, when impacted, of the deformation resistant material of the conforming protective base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: VAULT PROTECTIVE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric R. OLIVER
  • Patent number: 11540579
    Abstract: A protective helmet includes an energy dissipative assembly including a conforming protective base adapted to directly contact and conform to a corresponding bony anatomical region of a wearer's head. A supported flexible suspended crown adapted to be affixed to the conforming protective base and configured to define a gap separating substantially all of the interior surface of the supported flexible suspended crown from contact with a corresponding anatomical crown region of the wearer when the helmet is donned by the wearer. The supported flexible suspended crown including at least one contoured flexible shell or a plurality of cantilevered members comprising a compliant energy dissipating material that, when impacted, undergoes deformation to an extent that is greater than deformation, when impacted, of the deformation resistant material of the conforming protective base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: VAULT PROTECTIVE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric R. Oliver
  • Publication number: 20220142285
    Abstract: A protective helmet includes an energy dissipative assembly including a conforming protective base adapted to directly contact and conform to a corresponding bony anatomical region of a wearer's head. A supported flexible suspended crown adapted to be affixed to the conforming protective base and configured to define a gap separating substantially all of the interior surface of the supported flexible suspended crown from contact with a corresponding anatomical crown region of the wearer when the helmet is donned by the wearer. The supported flexible suspended crown including at least one contoured flexible shell or a plurality of cantilevered members comprising a compliant energy dissipating material that, when impacted, undergoes deformation to an extent that is greater than deformation, when impacted, of the deformation resistant material of the conforming protective base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: VAULT PROTECTIVE INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Eric R. OLIVER
  • Publication number: 20220023741
    Abstract: An uncoupled anterior cranial shield is disclosed including a yoke configured to attach to support garment or integrated with the support garment and a suspended mask attached to the yoke and extending from the yoke so as to be disposed at least partially covering a face of an individual wearing the support garment. The suspended mask is free of force communicating persistent connection to a head of the wearer other than indirectly through the shoulder pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Eric R. OLIVER