BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Two local high school alumni are being celebrated for a breakthrough in sports safety.<\/p>\n
Liberty High School grads Joseph Barlow and Sid Tekumalla were awarded a U.S. patent for their baseball helmet safety technology.<\/p>\n
The design involves a nylon, honeycomb-shaped structure that gets secured inside helmets and is meant to absorb impact.<\/p>\n
The structure can also recover most of its shape, which means it can be safely re-used.<\/p>\n
The assistant superintendent of the Bethlehem Area School District commended the pair’s achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Two local high school alumni are being celebrated for a breakthrough in sports safety. Liberty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,29363,153,1412,29361,9947,28,29362],"class_list":{"0":"post-51685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-baseball-helmet-safety-technology","12":"tag-bethlehem","13":"tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","14":"tag-joseph-barlow","15":"tag-liberty-high-school","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-sid-tekumalla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}