ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,808, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Support garment" was invented by Andrew L. DePew (Portland, Ore.), Iustinia Koshkaroff (Mount Angel, Ore.), Ariana S. Levitt (Portland, Ore.) and Yuan Mu (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support garment (e.g., upper-torso support garment, such as a bra) includes a mesh textile that is integrally formed and that is lightweight and breathable with zonal properties. For example, the mesh can include elongated members, which intersect with one another at nodes to form a grid of cells, and the mesh can continuously extend throughout one or more multipl...