On October 6, 2015 The Burton Corporation was awarded a patent (# US 9,147,711 B1) for a “snowboard binding and boot,” according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent was filed on November 14, 2014.
The newly patented system, which looks similar to the Burton SI bindings of yesteryear with the addition of an elaborate heel latching mechanism, was apparently “invented” by Raymond Robert Kavarsky, Jr., Christopher M. Doyle, and Scott T. Keller.
Click the image to look at it more closely or to check out the pages and pages of official references, schematics, descriptions, click this link.
We especially enjoyed the references list which includes patents held by a host of familiar names including: Fournier, Karol, Morrow, Sanders, Raines, Meiselman, Alden, Warburton, Pelchat, and even Spademan.
[Link: USPTO]
Good lord, let’s not go through this again.
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