US Patent and Trademark Office is one of the greatest repositories of practical knowledge in history. But along with a great deal of very serious and edifying material, much legally advised and/or required verbiage, and inventor-inspired general-purpose pleonasms, there are some items in their records that are highly amusing. In this series, occasional examples of such patents and patent applications are going to be extracted and put up for their amusement value.
Sometimes it's nice to be protected. But when making sure one is protected, that protection has to be located and used intelligently, so that all the important areas are covered. Sometimes, res ipse dixit. Here we have armored underwear, with pictures to match. What was the inventor of this thinking? The coverage is entirely too skimpy, leaving the user so exposed in so many places. And the areas left exposed don't leave a lot to imagination either!
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