ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,282, issued on April 22.
"Hands free full body adjustable strap stretching device" was invented by Robert Nicholas Severinac Sr. (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Richard Rutledge (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exercise stretching device includes a proximal loop component having a strap configured to form a loop, an adjustable clamp configured to couple two opposite ends of the strap to form the loop, and a pad carried by the strap; a distal slotted component having a plurality of slots situated along its length, the strap being disposed in one of the plurality of slots; and a distal grommet component looped around the strap...