ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,048, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Festool GmbH (Wendlingen, Germany).

"Wearing device and method" was invented by Esther Holsten-Stuehmer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearing device, which is designed as an exoskeleton and/or includes a tool, for wearing on the human body, including a shoulder strap with a shoulder strap resting section for resting on a shoulder of a user. The shoulder strap resting section has a target bending structure extending in the longitudinal direction of the shoulder strap for reducing the bending stiffness of the shoulder strap resting section in a bending direction transverse to...