ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,042, issued on Oct. 20.
"Compression pants for lipedema" was invented by Glenda Biggs (Lloydminster, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compression pants for lipedema include a lower waist portion, a hip portion, a right thigh portion and a left thigh portion. The hip portion is positioned below and depends from the lower waist portion. The hip portion is larger than the lower waist portion. The right thigh portion and the left thigh portion are positioned below and depend from the lower waist portion. Each of the right thigh portion and the left thigh portion have an upper part and a lower part. The upper part is larger in circum...