Trevor Wittman & ONX Sports Patents
ONX Sports Patent History
Trevor Gene Wittman is named as inventor on multiple U.S. patents involving combat-sports hand protection. Patent records identify XON Sports, Inc. as assignee on the X Splint Hand Protection Device and Fight Glove patents described below. This page documents the filing history, patent-family relationships, claimed technology and later patent records that cite Wittman/XON work as prior art.
About the evidence on this page
This timeline is based on publicly available U.S. and international patent records. A patent grant documents issued claims, and a patent citation can establish that an earlier publication was considered relevant to a later patent record. Neither a patent grant nor a prior-art citation, by itself, proves that another party copied, infringed or misappropriated an invention.
Patent Register
Patent & Publication Register
The table below lists Trevor Wittman's combat-sports hand and shin protection patents and publications in the U.S. patent record, in chronological order. Document numbers link to the corresponding Google Patents record for the full specification, claims and prosecution history.
| Document / Patent number | Title | Inventor | Publication date |
|---|---|---|---|
| US-20130198920-A1 | Hand Wrap and Compression Sleeve | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2013-08-08 |
| US-20130198922-A1 | Shin Guard Compression Sleeve | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2013-08-08 |
| US-20170282048-A1 | X Splint Hand Protection Device | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2017-10-05 |
| US-10376770-B2 | X splint hand protection device | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2019-08-13 |
| US-11344788-B1 | Fight glove | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2022-05-31 |
| US-20220401816-A1 | Fight glove | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2022-12-22 |
| US-12115436-B2 | Fight glove | Wittman; Trevor Gene | 2024-10-15 |
Publication dates above reflect the official publication or grant date for each document. Two entries (the X Splint and Fight Glove application publications) are pre-grant publications of applications that later issued as granted patents shown elsewhere in this table.
Filing History
Timeline of Trevor Wittman's Combat-Sports Hand-Protection Patents
February 2, 2012 — Earlier Wittman hand-protection work
Hand Wrap and Compression Sleeve
Before the XON Sports patent families below, Wittman filed earlier hand-protection work associated with GSOK LLC. U.S. publication US 2013/0198920 A1 identifies Trevor Gene Wittman as inventor, GSOK LLC as assignee and February 2, 2012 as the priority date. The application is listed as abandoned. It is included here as earlier Wittman patent activity, not as an XON Sports patent.
Google Patents: US20130198920A1August 8, 2013 — Companion application published
Shin Guard Compression Sleeve
Filed alongside the hand-wrap application and published the same day, US 2013/0198922 A1 also identifies Trevor Gene Wittman as inventor and shares the same February 2, 2012 priority date. It covers shin protection rather than hand protection and is included here for completeness of the earlier Wittman filing record, not as an XON Sports patent.
Google Patents: US20130198922A1April 4, 2016 — X Splint priority date
X Splint Hand Protection Device
The X Splint patent family identifies April 4, 2016 as its earliest priority date. The later nonprovisional application was U.S. Application 15/469,543.
March 26, 2017 — U.S. Application 15/469,543 filed
Trevor Gene Wittman is identified as inventor and XON Sports, Inc. as assignee. The public patent record also shows an assignment of the inventor's interest to XON Sports, Inc.
October 5, 2017 — Application published
US 2017/0282048 A1
The X Splint application was published as US 2017/0282048 A1.
August 13, 2019 — U.S. Patent 10,376,770 B2 granted
X Splint Hand Protection Device
The granted patent describes a striking glove with an inner glove, outer shell and an internal strap system positioned in a dorsal cavity. Among the claimed features are overlapping/crossed strap sections and arrangements in which straps can move within channels in the glove.
- Internal hand-support straps
- Overlapping and crossed strap configuration
- Dorsal cavity / channel arrangements
- Straps extending from the internal cavity toward the exterior of the glove
- Hand and wrist support in a striking-glove architecture
April 6, 2021 — Fight Glove application filed
U.S. Application 17/223,205
A separate Fight Glove application was filed on April 6, 2021. The application identifies Trevor Gene Wittman as inventor and XON Sports, Inc. as assignee. The specification describes this application as related to the earlier X Splint patent rather than as a continuation of the 2017 X Splint application.
May 31, 2022 — U.S. Patent 11,344,788 B1 granted
Fight Glove
The Fight Glove patent develops the internal support concept with channels and movable straps positioned within the glove. The patent includes embodiments directed to open-finger fight gloves and discusses movement between an open grappling position and a clenched striking position.
- Internal support/webbing systems
- Multiple dorsal channels
- Crossed and overlapping straps
- Branched strap configurations in described embodiments
- Dorsal and lateral padding arrangements
- Open-finger MMA glove embodiments
- Open grappling and clenched striking hand positions
May 11, 2022 — Continuation filed
U.S. Application 17/741,973
Application 17/741,973 was filed as a continuation of U.S. Application 17/223,205. It therefore belongs to the Fight Glove family and carries the April 6, 2021 priority date shown in the patent record.
December 22, 2022 — Continuation published
US 2022/0401816 A1
The continuation application was published as US 2022/0401816 A1.
October 15, 2024 — U.S. Patent 12,115,436 B2 granted
Fight Glove continuation
U.S. Patent 12,115,436 B2 issued from the continuation. Its claims further address multi-strap internal-support arrangements, including straps positioned within channels and padding configured to protect dorsal hand structures. The patent's claim set expressly references impact protection for structures including the wrist, metacarpals, metacarpophalangeal joints and phalanges.
Patent Families
ONX Fight Glove Patent Families
The X Splint patent and the later Fight Glove patents are related technology, but they should not be described as one uninterrupted continuation chain. The 2021 Fight Glove application calls the X Splint case a related application. The 2022 application, by contrast, is expressly identified as a continuation of the 2021 Fight Glove application.
| Patent family | Earliest priority | Published application | Granted patent |
|---|---|---|---|
| X Splint Hand Protection Device | April 4, 2016 | US 2017/0282048 A1 | US 10,376,770 B2 |
| Fight Glove | April 6, 2021 | Granted without a separate A1 publication listed for the parent case | US 11,344,788 B1 |
| Fight Glove continuation | April 6, 2021 | US 2022/0401816 A1 | US 12,115,436 B2 |
What The Patents Cover
What Do the Wittman/XON Fight Glove Patents Cover?
Patent claims are legal language and should be read in full before drawing conclusions about claim scope. In plain English, the XON patent record repeatedly addresses how internal support structures, padding, straps and glove construction can work together to stabilize and protect the hand during striking.
INTERNAL HAND SUPPORT
The X Splint and Fight Glove records describe strap or webbing structures positioned inside the glove, including configurations that cross the dorsal side of the hand and move within channels.
METACARPAL AND DORSAL-HAND PROTECTION
The later Fight Glove continuation includes claim language concerning padding and internal support in relation to the wrist, metacarpals, metacarpophalangeal joints and phalanges.
STRIKING AND GRAPPLING POSITIONS
The Fight Glove disclosure includes open-finger embodiments capable of assuming an open position for grappling and a clenched position for striking.
INTEGRATED GLOVE ARCHITECTURE
The patents address combinations of glove shells, padding, support straps and channels rather than merely describing a conventional external wrist strap.
Ownership
Inventor and Patent Assignee
| Inventor | Trevor Gene Wittman |
|---|---|
| Patent assignee shown in the XON patent records | XON Sports, Inc. |
In patent terminology, the inventor is the person legally identified as having invented the claimed subject matter. The assignee is the entity to which patent rights have been assigned. The patent records linked on this page show assignments from Trevor Gene Wittman to XON Sports, Inc.
Prosecution History
Patent Examination and Prosecution History
A granted patent is the end result of examination, but the prosecution record can provide additional context: examiner searches, prior-art references, office actions, applicant responses, claim amendments and notices of allowance. Those documents can be reviewed directly in USPTO Patent Center using the application numbers below.
| Application | Patent family | USPTO prosecution record |
|---|---|---|
| 15/469,543 | X Splint Hand Protection Device | Open USPTO Patent Center |
| 17/223,205 | Fight Glove | Open USPTO Patent Center |
| 17/741,973 | Fight Glove continuation | Open USPTO Patent Center |
Why prosecution history matters
Patent examination can show what earlier technology an examiner considered and how claims changed before allowance. It should be used to understand the scope and history of the issued claims, not as shorthand proof that no related technology existed before a patent or that a later product infringes it.
Third-Party Evidence
Later Records Citing Wittman/XON Technology
A separate category of evidence comes from later patent records that cite XON/Wittman patents. This matters because it shows that the earlier XON filings became part of the documented patent landscape referenced in later glove inventions. Google Patents identifies an asterisk (*) as "cited by examiner" and a dagger (†) as "cited by third party." The examples below are records Google Patents marks as examiner citations.
Important limitation
A citation does not establish copying, infringement or misappropriation. It establishes that an earlier reference appears in the later patent record. For legal conclusions about why a reference was cited or how it affected claim allowance, review the complete prosecution file for that later application.
UFC / Zuffa: Mixed Martial Arts Equipment
Zuffa LLC's later MMA equipment family identifies a priority date of June 23, 2023. The U.S. application published as US 2024/0424380 A1 and subsequently issued as US 12,594,484 B2 on April 7, 2026. Google Patents lists both US 10,376,770 B2 (X Splint Hand Protection Device) and US 11,344,788 B1 (Fight Glove) among the examiner-cited references associated with the Zuffa patent family.
Boxraw Ltd: Boxing Glove
Boxraw's Boxing Glove patent family has a priority date of December 16, 2021. Google Patents identifies both the XON X Splint patent and the XON Fight Glove patent as examiner-cited references in the Boxraw record.
Pulse Sports, LLC: Boxing Glove with Shock-Absorbing Lattice
Google Patents lists US 10,376,770 B2 among examiner-cited references for US 12,403,383 B2, a later boxing-glove patent assigned to Pulse Sports, LLC.
Jason Lam: Carpometacarpal Joint Stabilising Boxing Glove
Google Patents identifies the X Splint family among examiner-cited references associated with WO 2023/049960 A1, a later patent application concerning a carpometacarpal-joint stabilising boxing glove.
Matthew Sharp: Protective Glove
Google Patents lists US 10,376,770 B2 as an examiner-cited reference in the later US 11,465,034 B2 Protective Glove record.
Richard Jean: Hand Immobilizing Dexterity Trainer Glove
Google Patents lists US 10,376,770 B2 as an examiner-cited reference for US 2020/0060362 A1.
Additional patent-family citation footprint
Google Patents' "Families Citing this Family" data for the X Splint family also includes later records involving training gloves, sports gloves, bare-knuckle fighting gloves, open-palm boxing gloves, dual-strap boxing gloves and other hand-protection technologies. Examples include records associated with P&P Imports, Wilson Sporting Goods, Ramon L. Quinones and others.
| Later record | Assignee / inventor | Earlier XON record cited | Google Patents citation marker |
|---|---|---|---|
| US 12,594,484 B2 — Mixed Martial Arts Equipment | Zuffa LLC | US 10,376,770 B2; US 11,344,788 B1 | Examiner-cited |
| US 2025/0050191 A1 — Boxing Glove | Boxraw Ltd | US 10,376,770 B2; US 11,344,788 B1 | Examiner-cited |
| US 12,403,383 B2 — Boxing Glove with Shock-Absorbing Lattice | Pulse Sports, LLC | US 10,376,770 B2 | Examiner-cited |
| WO 2023/049960 A1 — Carpometacarpal Joint Stabilising Boxing Glove | Jason Lam | X Splint patent family | Examiner-cited |
| US 11,465,034 B2 — Protective Glove | Matthew Sharp | US 10,376,770 B2 | Examiner-cited |
| US 2020/0060362 A1 — Hand Immobilizing Dexterity Trainer Glove | Richard Jean | US 10,376,770 B2 | Examiner-cited |
Citation classification above reflects Google Patents metadata. For a legal or litigation use, confirm each reference against the official USPTO or applicable international prosecution file.
Primary Sources
Primary Patent Sources
For primary-source review, use USPTO Patent Center for U.S. application files and prosecution history. Google Patents is useful for family relationships, citations and international cross-links; Justia can serve as an accessible secondary reference.
X Splint Hand Protection Device
Fight Glove
Fight Glove Continuation
Zuffa Mixed Martial Arts Equipment
FAQ
ONX Sports Patent FAQ
Does Trevor Wittman have patents?
Yes. Trevor Gene Wittman is named as inventor on multiple U.S. patents involving combat-sports hand protection, including patents assigned to XON Sports, Inc.
What is Trevor Wittman's earliest ONX glove patent priority date?
The X Splint Hand Protection Device family identifies an earliest priority date of April 4, 2016.
What is U.S. Patent 10,376,770?
US 10,376,770 B2 is the granted X Splint Hand Protection Device patent. Trevor Gene Wittman is named as inventor and XON Sports, Inc. is listed as assignee.
What is U.S. Patent 11,344,788?
US 11,344,788 B1 is a Fight Glove patent invented by Trevor Gene Wittman and assigned to XON Sports, Inc.
What is U.S. Patent 12,115,436?
US 12,115,436 B2 is a later Fight Glove patent issued from a continuation of the application underlying US 11,344,788 B1.
Have later glove patents cited XON/Wittman patents?
Yes. Later patent records involving MMA, boxing, training and protective gloves identify XON/Wittman patents among their cited references. Google Patents marks a number of these references as examiner citations.
Has a UFC/Zuffa patent record cited XON patents?
Yes. The patent family that issued as US 12,594,484 B2 to Zuffa LLC includes earlier XON patent records among its cited references, including US 10,376,770 B2 and US 11,344,788 B1.
Does a patent citation mean another company copied ONX?
No. A prior-art citation indicates that an earlier patent or publication was considered relevant to a later patent record. A citation alone does not prove copying, infringement or legal liability.
How To Read This Patent History
This page is intended to make the public patent chronology easier to understand. It does not attempt to resolve ownership disputes, infringement allegations or other legal claims that require analysis beyond the face of public patent records. Readers can use the source links above to review the underlying patent documents and USPTO prosecution files directly.
