Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures attempt to patent a high-tech football helmet
Bill Gates wants to help improve the safety of football players. The Microsoft co-founder is listed on a recently-filed patent application along with 20 other inventors — including several from Bellevue-based patent holding company Intellectual Ventures — for a sensor-laden helmet that could detect concussion-causing impacts, and an apparatus that could assess damage to the helmet itself. The patent references a helmet that is “configured to reduce impact forces, torques, and accelerations to the head of a user in cases of impacts or collisions to the user’s head,” like during a football game, for example. The helmet has sensors that can measure impact data and… Read More