ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,618, issued on Oct. 20.

"Heated apparel system comprising at least one article of heated apparel with a heater, a heater controller and an electrical power supply" was invented by Brian Farrell (Walpole, Mass.), Richard Streeter (Walpole, Mass.), Allan Neville (Walpole, Mass.), David McDonald (Walpole, Mass.), Sean Farrell (Walpole, Mass.) and John Phillips (Walpole, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments describe approaches for warming a portion of a human body. The warming is based on heated apparel (e.g., a heated glove) coupled to an electrical power supply through a heater controller. The heated apparel (e.g....