ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,763, issued on June 10.

"Post-surgical compression garment" was invented by Paul Goldberg (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unitary garment body having a front abdominal portion interposed between two arm openings and the two leg openings of the garment, of an elastic-based polymer material, with an inner surface, defining at least one pocket interposed between outer and inner surfaces of the front abdominal portion and configured to enclose and define a pocket cavity shaped and sized to receive a thermal pack, and with a plurality of front pressure protrusions on the pocket and each projecting inwardly from the in...