US Patent Issued to HBI BRANDED APPAREL ENTERPRISES on July 29 for "Lower torso garment with support element" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,650, issued on July 29, was assigned to HBI BRANDED APPAREL ENTERPRISES LLC (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Lower torso garment with support element" was invented by Sherry E. Kimel (King, N.C.), Tasha R. Perry (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Rachel I. Erickson (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Melissa A. Coleman (Kernersville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boxer brief includes a body portion, a waist band, a left leg portion, a right leg portion, a front pouch disposed about a front region of the body portion, a means for providing support to the front pouch via the front pouch being connected to a bottom horizontal seam entirely above the first leg...