US Patent Issued on Sept. 15 for "Cupping device, system, and features" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,281, issued on Sept. 15.

"Cupping device, system, and features" was invented by Cynthia R. Brown (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction cup includes a body having a sidewall extending around an interior space and a rim extending around an opening to the interior space. At least a portion of the body is elastic and configured so that the body is capable of being squeezed to transition the body from an at-rest configuration to a partially-collapsed configuration, and elastically biased toward the at-rest configuration. The volume of the interior space of the body is greater in the at-rest configuration than in the...