ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,953, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to LZRD Tech Inc. (Atlanta).

"Activewear garment with enhanced traction" was invented by Michael Pullen (Cream Ridge, N.J.), Mathew Quon (Rose Valley, Pa.), Jud Ready (Atlanta), Vishal Shah (Ballwin, Mo.) and Mary Crowell (Hempstead, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Athletic and/or work wear garment can have textile regions of differing friction to facilitate maintaining a grip between high friction textile regions and objects pressed against the high friction textile regions. In some embodiments, the high friction textile regions can facilitate carrying objects. In some embodiments, the garmen...