ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,056, issued on April 29, was assigned to Xiamen Hexin Technology Co. Ltd. (Xiamen, China).

"Shapewear having rubber elastic fabric" was invented by Zhennan Xu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a shapewear having a rubber elastic fabric. The shapewear has a one-piece garment structure or a waist-shaping trousers structure, with more than one shaping portion. The shapewear includes a shell fabric and a lining fabric; the lining fabric is stitched and connected to an inside of the shell fabric; and the shaping portions are each disposed on the lining fabric. The rubber elastic fabric has the t...