Patents Examined by Gloria M. Hale
  • Article of apparel
    Patent number: 11484076
    Abstract: A bra including a closure system, the closure system including a first layered fabric body, a second layered fabric body, a loop assembly secured to the first layered fabric body, and a hook assembly secured to the second layered fabric body. The hook assembly is configured to interface with the loop assembly to secure the first layered fabric body to the second layered fabric body, and the first layered fabric body includes a flexible supporting layer, where the flexible supporting layer is configured to provide rigidity to the second layered fabric body such that the second layered fabric body maintains a flat configuration when it is secured to the first layered fabric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Stephanie K. Muhlenfeld, Kozet Mitchell
  • Muti-fabric expandable apparel
    Patent number: 11478024
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide a multi-fabric apparel comprising a first fabric, a second fabric and a third fabric. The first fabric forms an upper surface of the apparel. The second fabric is stitched to the first fabric and forms a lower surface of the apparel. The third fabric is stitched between the first fabric and the second fabric forming an intermediate layer. The third fabric comprises a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is stitched between the first fabric and the second fabric, and the second layer is stitched to a second surface of the second fabric in a way that the second fabric is sandwiched between the first layer and the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Annunziata
  • Pull-release closure apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11478032
    Abstract: A pull-release closure apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises a separable fastener, comprising a male portion having a lug, a corresponding female portion having a hook detachably coupled to the lug, the hook further comprising a first substantially circular opening mounted on a peg, a second substantially circular opening, and a protrusion resting against a wall of the female portion. The apparatus comprises a cord coupled to the second substantially circular opening and extending outward from the separable fastener. The apparatus comprises a first garment attachment member comprising a first substantially rectangular opening, the first garment attachment member coupled to the male portion, and a second garment attachment member comprising a second substantially rectangular opening, the second garment attachment member coupled to the female portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: LoRonda Brazelton
  • Pressure-distributing undergarment
    Patent number: 11470889
    Abstract: This invention relates to undergarments for use in active environments, where the wearer of such an undergarment is engaged in an activity that results in accelerating movements. In some preferred embodiments, these undergarments may be athletic or sports bras that redirect momentum related to a wearer's accelerating movements, for example, during exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventors: Bruce Huffa, Kristen Barnes, Erica Buckeridge, Yogendra Dandapure
  • Convertible jacket
    Patent number: 11470894
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a jacket that can be converted into, for example, a tote bag. The convertible jacket can include zippers placed at the midriff and waist for converting the jacket into a tote bag. In some embodiments, the handles of the tote bag are placed inside of the convertible jacket for carrying the tote bag after the convertible jacket is converted into the tote bag. In certain embodiments, the tote bag portion can be unzipped from the convertible jacket, then the jacket can be worn as a cropped jacket or the top portion of the convertible jacket can be placed into the tote bag. In one embodiment, the convertible jacket can include a zipper at the hem to form the bottom of the tote bag, and can include another zipper at the middle of the jacket for facilitating detachment of the bottom portion from the convertible jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Ashley Sankar
  • Bra with stretch support
    Patent number: 11464262
    Abstract: A brassiere includes a front portion configured to be position along a front of a torso, a back portion coupled to the front portion, and a shoulder strap extending from the front portion to the back portion. The front portion comprises a fabric layer and a discontinuous polymer layer. The fabric layer includes a first, user-facing side and second side opposite the first side. The polymer layer is deposited on the second side of the fabric layer. The polymer layer forms covered fabric areas where the polymer is applied to the fabric layer and noncovered fabric areas where the polymer is not applied to the fabric layer. The noncovered fabric areas provide openings in the discontinuous polymer layer, thereby exposing the fabric layer. An elastic modulus of the covered fabric areas is greater than the noncovered fabric areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.
    Inventors: Merida Miller, Jason Berns
  • Pressure-distributing undergarment with fastening system
    Patent number: 11457672
    Abstract: This invention relates to undergarments for use in active environments, where the wearer of such an undergarment is engaged in an activity that requires accelerating movements. In some preferred embodiments, these undergarments may be sports bras constructed from a stiffened or reinforced material and may include decoupled, damping cups for supporting breast tissue, and a fastening system incorporated into a reinforced underband that allows the wearer to more easily wear and remove the undergarment without compromising underband support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Rebecca Claire Ward, Alexandra Carmela Plante, Laura Renee Dixon, Erica Margaret Buckeridge
  • Multi-use cover
    Patent number: 11445773
    Abstract: A configurable baby cover for covering an infant in a number of situations and/or environments. A fabric portion provides privacy or shade for the infant and is shaped to ensure coverage of a user while nursing. A mesh portion provides airflow to the user and baby to prevent overheating and completes the shape of the cover. The cover has a first opening and a second opening which define a passage through the cover through which a user's torso, a baby car seat, a high chair, or other object may pass through partially or wholly. Fasteners around the second opening of the cover reduce the size of the second opening when secured and keep the cover in place on a user's shoulder or on an upper portion of a car seat or high chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Boppy Company, LLC
    Inventor: Haley Gibbons
  • Moisture absorbing anti-leak undergarments
    Patent number: 11445767
    Abstract: Undergarments that are uniquely constructed to absorb fluids, such as those associated with sweat and lactation, in either prescribed areas of the undergarment or throughout the totality thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Proof Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jodi Caden
  • Articles of clothing and brassieres
    Patent number: 11432596
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brassiere having excellent fitting properties, allowing a greater number of wearers to obtain a sufficient fit for their breasts. The brassiere has a cup part for covering the wearer's breasts. The cup part includes an inner cup provided inside the cup part. The inner cup has an upper side portion. The upper side portion has a wave-shaped structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akemi Kobayashi, Satomi Kobayashi
  • Cup, mold and underwear
    Patent number: 11432595
    Abstract: A cup, a mold and an underwear are disclosed. The cup includes an upper surface layer, a lower surface layer and a nipple-exposure prevention layer. The upper surface layer is provided with an inner concave portion, the nipple-exposure prevention layer is arranged in the inner concave portion, and the upper surface layer is arranged towards a side far away from a breast. When the lower surface layer of the cup is closely attached to the upper surface layer, and the lower surface layer is contacted with a nipple, the nipple-exposure prevention layer is capable of preventing a nipple on a female breast from being prominent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Grand Gain Industrial Limited
    Inventor: Ho Yau Wan
  • Nighttime hand signal system and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11432602
    Abstract: A nighttime hand signal system, having primarily a glove or fingerless glove having a backside, one or more infrared (IR) reflective material patterns affixed to the backside of the glove, an infrared (IR) light source, a night vision optical viewer, and thus functions to have the glove used by forward personnel in a police or military unit to provide a variety of hand signal communications to rear personnel using night vision optical viewer, as well as identify friend verse enemy personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: David M. Cavender
  • Breast prostheses
    Patent number: 11432946
    Abstract: A breast prosthesis comprises a resiliently-compliant silicone shell (1;11) which has an outer wall (2;12) configured to simulate the shape of a female breast. The wall (2;12) is fretted with an ornamental pattern of perforations (6;16) that vent the internal cavity (4;14) of the shell (1;11), and ribs (5;15) within the cavity (4;14) extend across it in resiliently supporting and retaining the breast-shape of the shell (1;11). The ribs (5;15) are interconnected with one another and are molded integrally with the outer wall (2;12). The shell (1:11) has a flat peripheral rim (3:13) to the cavity (4:14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BOOST INNOVATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher John Hawken, Samantha Jane Jackman, Rosie Brave
  • Face shield for baseball cap
    Patent number: 11425953
    Abstract: A face shield comprising: a shield having a perforation that receives a brim of a baseball cap, and a pair of tabs extending from the shield that engage opposing sides of an inner portion of the baseball cap. Each tab may include a projection extending away from the base, and the projection may be inserted into a sweatband within the baseball cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: EXTANG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brent Lorenz Rose
  • Nursing bra
    Patent number: 11419368
    Abstract: Nursing bra with a back part and a breast part, which form a circumferential envelopment for the upper body in the connected state, with shoulder straps extending between the breast part and the back part and with two bra cups, each formed adapted to accommodate a female breast and each releasably connected to the shoulder straps and each having an opening that leads to the nipple of the female breast and that is on the outer side covered by an outer ply which is removable from the opening. A nursing bra of the type mentioned above that provides high functionality while having an attractive appearance is created according to the invention in that a flap is provided on the inner side of the bra cup and covers the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MEDELA HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Annina H. Schnadt, Andrea Zimmermann
  • Infant bodysuit of multi-layer construction
    Patent number: 11419366
    Abstract: The invention provides for an infant bodysuit (10) of multi-layer construction which includes a fabric layer (30) laminated to the inside of the infant bodysuit (10) which fabric layer (30) may consist of a substantially water proof membrane (32) which operatively serves to retain moisture on the inside thereof and allow transfer of moisture through the membrane and evaporation thereof on the outside of the membrane, characterised in that the membrane is an imperforate monolithic membrane that may be selected to provide a transfer mechanism for moisture which includes the steps of absorption of moisture on one side of the membrane where there may be higher humidity, diffusion through the membrane, and desorption of moisture on the other side of the membrane where there may be lower humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: Lee-Anne Kassel
  • Clothing back buckle, bra connector and bra
    Patent number: 11419372
    Abstract: A clothing back buckle, includes an inner lining cloth, a plurality of fasteners provided on a surface of the inner lining cloth, and an outer sleeve bag sleeved outside the inner lining cloth. The outer sleeve bag is a cylindrical cloth bag with one end open, and first slits corresponding to the fastener and for the fastener to go through are provided on the outer sleeve bag. The clothing back buckle adopts the outer sleeve bag to sleeve outside the inner lining cloth so that the outer sleeve bag completely covers the inner lining cloth. No sharp fracture or firm feel exists on the left and right sides of the clothing back buckle since no sewing seam is provided, the user thus feels more comfortable and harmonious when wearing the bra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KAIPING LEADTHEWAY HOOK & EYE TAPE LTD.
    Inventor: Suilung Cheung
  • Brassiere with anchored under supports
    Patent number: 11412786
    Abstract: A brassiere formed of an inner garment base, memory foam, a pair of under supports, and an outer fabric cover. The under support is rigid and has varying width and differing radii to accommodate the bottom portion shape of a natural breast or a breast implant, which is not a perfect semi-circle. The under support is positioned such that the foam encapsulates the under support keeping the proximal edge in proximity with bottom portion of the breast tissues or implant and the ribs. The under support has its largest width, thereby the largest contact surface with the implant or breast tissues, closest to the lateral end causing the breast tissues or implant to be supported upward and medially. The under support has openings or anchors extending thereform with openings to allow the foam to surround and go through the under support to secure it in place in the brassiere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Sculpted U, Inc.
    Inventor: Elizabeth A. Crompton
  • Perspiration absorbing device
    Patent number: 11412795
    Abstract: A perspiration absorbing device for preventing staining due to perspiration and for masking body odor includes a second panel that is coupled by opposing termini and a first side to a first panel to define a pocket. A pair of couplers is coupled singly proximate to opposing edges of the first panel. The couplers are configured to couple the first panel to at least one of skin of a user and an interior surface of a garment so that the first panel is positioned proximate to a respective armpit of the user. The first panel and the second panel are configured to absorb perspiration. Each of a set of sachets is selectively insertable into the pocket so that the sachet is configured to emit a fragrance to mask body odor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Dorothea Jones
  • Nursing garment
    Patent number: 11399577
    Abstract: A nursing garment computing system includes a nursing garment having a pair of breast cups with an electronic sensor to indicate the status of a breast in the pair of breast cups and a computing device to record the sensor data indicative of whether the breast cup is open or closed. The data can be electronically sent to an external device such as a cell phone or personal digital assistant to keep track of which breast cup has been opened for breastfeeding event, time between breastfeeding event, amount of time for breastfeeding from each side of the breast, a record of which side was nursed last, and a record of which side was nursed first during the last breastfeeding event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: AKERSON IP LLC
    Inventors: Deeanne Akerson, Garret Akerson