ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,253, issued on May 5, was assigned to Spanx LLC (Atlanta).
"Shaping garment with fit-adjustable brassiere portion" was invented by Angelica Melendez (Atlanta), Jennifer Johnson (Atlanta) and Elena Novosiolova (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Designing garments that include brassiere cups can be challenging due to the natural fluctuation of a woman's breast size, as well as a possible disconnect between the size of her breasts and the size of the rest of her body. The high range of size variability places pressure on stores to stock inventories that include great ranges of sizes. This places an inventory risk to the store, since ...