ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,356, issued on March 3, was assigned to Medi Manufacturing Inc. (Whitsett, N.C.).

"Two-layer tension measurement system for compression garments" was invented by Thomas Richardson (San Diego) and Moses Lipshaw (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two layer compression garment measuring system that displays a pressure indicia when the garment is stretched, wherein the pressure indicia is displayed by moving from a position under an opaque layer of material (at low or no pressure) to a position under a window or transparent or translucent layer of material (at higher pressure). When the indicia can be seen by an observe...