ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,057, issued on April 29.
"Pants with belt" was invented by Susumu Odate (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pair of belt-attached pants includes a pants main body having a waistband part and a waist part configured to cover a lower abdomen above a pubis of a wearer and below the waistband part, a first belt having a first fixed part that is fixed to a back surface of the waist part, a second belt having a second fixed part that is fixed to the front surface of the waist part, a fastening part that makes the second belt fastenable to the first belt, wherein the first belt and the second belt are formed of a member having ...