ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,361, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Encore Innovation Group LLC (Livonia, Mich.).
"Mobility-assistive garment" was invented by Michael James Mies (Plymouth, Mich.), Waldemar Tadeusz Raczkowski (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Wiliam Francis Hayden (Dearborn Heights, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper or lower body garment includes an interior surface, a strap sheath carried by the interior surface and establishing a strap tunnel, and a strap movably extending through the strap sheath and being slidable in the strap tunnel relative to the strap sheath. The strap may be stretch-resistant and composed of stretch-resistant ny...