US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 23 for "Upper-torso support garment" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,865, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Upper-torso support garment" was invented by Fanny Yung Ho (Portland, Ore.) and Amy L. Toth (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper-torso support garment includes an outer layer and an inner layer that together define interlayer compartments for retaining objects such as breast pumps or prosthetics. A material extension spans between middle regions of the outer and inner layers from a neck-opening edge to a torso-opening edge, creating separate chambers and providing increased volume and retention. The outer layer includes paired breast-covering por...