ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,059, issued on Sept. 9.

"Abdominal bracing and posture correction method and training device" was invented by Linton Lee (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention is a method intended to cause abdominal bracing and improve pelvic, neck and back posture by providing focus on a specific area of the abdominal muscles at the front of the body and not on the sides, back muscles or spine of the user. Continued, deep inward pressure is applied to a small area on the relaxed rectus abdominis muscle at a specific point. The user contracts only the small area of the rectus abdominis receiving the inward pressure to...