ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,949, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Gap Inc. (San Francisco).
"High impact and high support bras" was invented by Brett Roddis (Berkeley, Calif.), Melissa Lawrence (San Francisco), John Kelly (San Francisco), Zachary Michael Goldberg-Poch (San Francisco), Philip Isaac Oaks (Berkeley, Calif.), Carolina Isabel Rodriguez (Berkeley, Calif.), H. William Smith IV (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Daniel Ross Tachibana (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bras for high impact, high support activities are provided. A bra comprises a band that wraps around a torso. The band includes first and second cup regions, and a channel that ru...