US 12,225,949 B2
High impact and high support bras
Brett Roddis, Berkeley, CA (US); Melissa Lawrence, San Francisco, CA (US); John Kelly, San Francisco, CA (US); Zachary Michael Goldberg-Poch, San Francisco, CA (US); Philip Isaac Oaks, Berkeley, CA (US); Carolina Isabel Rodriguez, Berkeley, CA (US); H. William Smith, IV, Mill Valley, CA (US); and Daniel Ross Tachibana, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to The Gap, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by The Gap, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed on May 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/321,629.
Application 18/321,629 is a continuation of application No. 17/367,120, filed on Jul. 2, 2021, granted, now 11,690,412.
Application 17/367,120 is a continuation of application No. 16/564,873, filed on Sep. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,058,155, issued on Jul. 13, 2021.
Application 16/564,873 is a continuation of application No. 16/297,473, filed on Mar. 8, 2019, granted, now 10,448,679, issued on Oct. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/731,592, filed on Sep. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0292851 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. A41C 3/12 (2006.01); A41C 3/00 (2006.01); A41C 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A41C 3/12 (2013.01) [A41C 3/0057 (2013.01); A41C 5/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bra comprising:
a band configured to wrap around a torso, wherein the band comprises:
a back portion;
a first underarm portion;
a second underarm portion;
a front portion, wherein the front portion is connected to the back portion through both the first underarm portion and the second underarm portion, and wherein
a bottom portion of the band forms an underband having an inner surface, and
a first textile strip is attached to a portion of the inner surface of the underband, wherein the first textile strip is formed from a material that is configured to adhere to a surface when the material is exposed to moisture;
an outer textile layer; and
an inner pad layer, and wherein a first bra cup of the bra is arranged between the outer textile layer and the inner pad layer.