USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Dept. of the Navy, a U.S. Government Agency, by the U.S. Marine Corps

Barbara Jean Quinn

Gabriel R Patricio

Deirdre E Townes

Rosemary Ann Lomba

Carole Ann Winterhalter

Anabela Dugas

Luisa DeMorais Santos

John Anthony Kirejczyk

Trevor Humphrey Scott

William Francis Carney

Brian Wilbur Robie

Vittorio Palumbo

Paul Melvin Lee, Iii

Derrick Emmett Dillon

Timothy R O'Neill

James Leon Pelland

Timothy Tyler Merica

The present invention is a loadbearing device known by the Applicants' as the 'Central Osteoarticular Relief and Performance Structured Load Distribution System' ('CORPS-LDS'), which is worn by a user to help distribute the weight of a load being carried or borne by the user. More specifically, the weight is substantially shifted from the user's shoulders to their hips while not overly inhibiting the user's range of motion. Furthermore, it is an aspect of the CORPS-LDS to distribute the weight being carried in a manner that reduces the strain on the spine and back while lessening the metabolic expenditure of the user. Moreover, the present invention is a protective vest system that utilizes the present invention's CORPS-LDS.

Central osteoarticular relief and performance structured load distribution system device and modular scalable vest system

A disruptive camouflage pattern system to be used for both military and civilian applications. The system includes specialized techniques for printing the camouflage pattern system unto fabric. The system provides camouflage in both the human visible light and the near infrared range. The system depends on macro pattern resulting from a repeat of a micro pattern. The coloring used includes at least four colorings from dyes that in combination produce a percent reflectance value comparable to that of the negative space of the camouflaged subject's surroundings. The system functions by a macro pattern being disruptive of the subject's shape and a micro pattern having sharp edge units of a size capable of blending the subject into its background. The relative lightness values and percentages of total pattern, wet or dry, are sufficient to produce a percent reflectance of acceptable colors, in terms of lightness values unlike current four-color camouflage.

Camouflage U.S. Marine corps utility uniform: pattern, fabric, and design

United states marine corps combat utility uniform

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Framingham, MA, United States of America

Barbara Jean Quinn