Patents Issued the Week of April 14-18

4.21.25

Patent Protection & Registration

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U.S. Patent No. 12,274,324 entitled “Protective Helmet” issued April 15, 2025 to Locatelli S.p.A. of Almenno San Bartolomeo, Italy. Invented by Antonio Locatelli of Almenno San Salvatore, Italy. Abstract: A protective helmet, particularly for automotive use, includes a cap adapted to wrap a portion of a user’s skull and provided with a front opening in correspondence with at least a portion of a user’s face and delimited by an upper edge and a first and second lateral edge of said cap, including a detachable arm for partial protection and support of a microphone reversibly fixed to said the cap at said first and/or second lateral edge, the detachable arm including a first element provided of first reversible coupling structure adapted to rigidly couple with corresponding second reversible coupling structure positioned in the cap at the first and/or second lateral edge, a second element flexibly coupled to the first element and which protrudes from it in the direction of the central and lower part of the front opening and adapted to support the microphone.

U.S. Patent No. 12,277,808 entitled “Asset Inspection Assistant” issued April 15, 2025. Invented by Bridgestone Mobility Solutions B.V. of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Invented by Andrea Corda and Gianfranco Santoro both of Barcelona, Spain. Abstract: A system for identifying likely defects with an asset within a fleet of assets comprises sensors to detect asset sensor data, user input devices/user output terminals associated with the plurality of assets, and a server device. The server device collects historical data comprising historical asset sensor data generated by the sensors and historical inspection report data from the user input devices. The server device further uses an algorithm to identify correlations in the historical data, obtains current asset sensor data generated by sensors on a given asset and/or obtains current inspection report data from a user input device associated with the given asset, calculates one or more likely defects with the asset based on the identified correlations, and based on the current asset sensor data and/or the current inspection report data, and sends the calculated likely defects to user output terminal associated with the given asset for display thereof.

U.S. Patent No. 12,277,599 entitled “Systems and Methods for Obtaining Accountant Prepared Financial Statement Confirmation” issued April 15, 2025 to Capital Confirmation, Inc. of Brentwood, Tennessee. Invented by Charles Brian Fox also of Brentwood, Tennessee. Abstract: A system and method facilitates obtaining accountant prepared financial statements associated with a client. An accountant is identified to the confirmation system by a client, or the client is identified by the accountant, wherein financial statements associated with the client are received from the accountant via the communications network. The client is only allowed to review and release, but not alter, the financial statements, and further provides permissions associated with the financial statements with respect to approved financial statement users. The financial statements are provided via the communications network to the approved financial statement users in accordance with the permissions provided by the client.