ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,455, issued on April 7.

"Elastic support device and optional power shirt and method of use thereof" was invented by Pedro M. Alaniz III (Corpus Christi, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a modular elastic support device including a base unit and at least one modular unit used for enhancing performance during weight training, or resistance training. The base unit and the modular unit include a substantially rectangular shaped chest band, and two arm cuffs at either end of the chest band. The modular unit is stacked over the base unit, or over preceding modular units. A user can add any number of modular units as desire...