ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,256, issued on May 5, was assigned to CERE Creations LLC (Lanesville, Ind.).
"Breast support garment" was invented by Robert H. Eichenberger (Lanesville, Ind.) and Cindy M. Eichenberger (Lanesville, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support garment for providing targeted, localized compression in a medial, medial-caudal, or medial-cephalad direction to the breasts of a wearer. The garment includes cups for receiving breasts of a user, a rear panel, and left and right wings connecting the left and right cups to a rear panel. The wings can contain a pocket therein for receiving a pad through a pocket opening in the wings. The pads, w...