ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,616, issued on Oct. 20.
"Treatment brassiere" was invented by Elizabeth Sarah Chabner Thompson (Greenwich, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment brassiere for providing treatment/pain relief for various skin conditions of the inframammary fold. The brassiere includes or accepts an inframammary-fold treatment-device (IMFTD) retainer that, in use, receives an inframammary-fold treatment device. The IMFTD retainer is located very near to, overlying, or partially overlying the inframammary fold of the wearer of the brassiere, so as to position the inframammary-fold treatment device at a location suitable for delivering treatme...