Patent Application
20240285008
The present invention relates generally to the field of incontinence pant devices. More specifically, the present invention relates to a set of one-piece pants that can be easily applied and removed via a zipper or other fastener. Accordingly, the present disclosure makes specific reference thereto. Nonetheless, it is to be appreciated that aspects of the present invention are also equally applicable to other like applications, devices, and methods of manufacture.
By way of background, this invention relates to improvements in incontinence pant devices. Generally, people suffering from incontinence may have unfortunate accidents that lead to embarrassing stains forming on their pants. Furthermore, patients who are handicapped, disabled, or bedridden may need to have their pants removed if an accident occurs; however, pulling down standard pants can lead to additional mess and cleanup.
Furthermore, the donning and removal of trousers and/or pants can be difficult tasks for many people, especially the elderly and handicapped. Also, some elderly, disabled, or handicapped people may have trouble putting on their own pants and keeping them secure. It typically requires putting one leg into a tubular structure first, then the other leg. Accordingly, elderly, disabled, and/or handicapped people may have trouble balancing on one foot to put on or take off their pants. Thus, it is desirable to have trousers or pants that can be donned and removed while both feet stay on the floor.
Accordingly, a need remains for a pair of pants that are easy to put on and remove. Further, a need arises for a pair of pants that can be removed without having to roll them down the body. Thus, allowing incontinence accidents not to become bigger messes.
Therefore, there exists a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that provides users with a set of one-piece pants that can be easily applied and removed via a zipper. There is also a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that enables nurses and other caregivers to remove the pants in one piece without having to roll them down the body and risk making a mess. Further, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that includes both elastic bands and hook and loop fasteners to help keep the pants secure while being worn. Moreover, there is a long-felt need in the art for a device that makes it much easier for disabled individuals to put on and take off their own pants. Further, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that comprises a zipper to allow a user to easily remove or apply the pants, as needed. Finally, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that can be manufactured as everyday wear for elderly, handicapped, and disabled people.
The subject matter disclosed and claimed herein, in one embodiment thereof, comprises an incontinence pant device. The device is a specialized pair of pants that allows caregivers to remove soiled pants more easily from a patient in a single piece. The incontinence pant device comprises a body component with two leg components. Further, the pant device features a zipper or other closure that can be undone to easily remove the pants in a single piece. Additionally, users can keep the pant device secure around their waist via an elastic band and hook and loop fasteners. Accordingly, if the pant device becomes soiled and needs to be removed from the patient, the caregiver may simply unzip the pant device and remove the pants in a single piece, without risk of an additional mess. The pant device can be manufactured as everyday wear for the elderly, disabled, and/or handicapped, as well as people with chronic diseases which cause unexpected accidents. Further, the pant device can be available in different sizes and shapes and constructed of cotton, polyester, and other suitable materials.
In this manner, the incontinence pant device of the present invention accomplishes all of the foregoing objectives and provides users with a device that provides a set of one-piece pants that can be easily applied and removed. The device helps the elderly, disabled, and handicapped with unexpected accidents. The device can be manufactured of cotton or polyester.
The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the disclosed innovation. This summary is not an extensive overview, and it is not intended to identify key/critical elements or to delineate the scope thereof. Its sole purpose is to present some general concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject matter disclosed and claimed herein, in one embodiment thereof, comprises an incontinence pant device. The device is a specialized pair of pants that allows caregivers to remove soiled pants more easily from a patient in a single piece. The incontinence pant device comprises a body component with two leg components. Further, the pant device features a zipper or other closure that can be undone to easily remove the pants in a single piece. Additionally, users can keep the pant device secure around their waist via an elastic band and hook and loop fasteners. Accordingly, if the pant device becomes soiled and needs to be removed from the patient, the caregiver may simply unzip the pant device and remove the pants in a single piece, without risk of an additional mess. The pant device can be manufactured as everyday wear for the elderly, disabled, and/or handicapped, as well as people with chronic diseases which cause unexpected accidents.
In one embodiment, the incontinence pant device is an integrated one-piece component. Specifically, the incontinence pant device comprises a body component with two leg components terminating in respective lower ends. Each leg component has a zipper that is scalable or other suitable securing means as is known in the art. In an open position, the left leg component has an open zipper with two sides, while the right leg has an open zipper with two sides. Thus, the pants have two long scalable openings, the first scalable opening and the second scalable opening, one in each of the legs. Both openings run the entire length of the pants from the waistband to the hems of the legs. The long scalable openings are constructed with two long zippers, (i.e., a zipper for the right leg and a zipper for the left leg). The openings are closed when the two zippers close. In one embodiment, some or all of the zippers are water resistant or waterproof.
In another embodiment, the body component comprises a waistband. The waistband is an elastic band or elastic gathers to allow the waistband to secure around a user's waist. In another embodiment, the waistband also comprises hook and loop fasteners, or other suitable fasteners, secured to extension tabs at opposing ends to further secure the waistband around a user's waist. For example, the fasteners can be any suitable fasteners found in apparel, such as snaps, hook and loops, grips, frog and lace, buckle, hook and eye, ladder lock, etc. When the fastener is secured, a closed waistband is formed.
In use, a user would wrap the waistband around the waist of a user and fasten the hook and loop fasteners to form a closed waistband loop. With the closed waistband resting on the waist of the user, the user can now use both hands to zip up the leg components. Specifically, the left leg component is closed by zipping the opening from the waistband all the way down to the left hem. Further, the right leg component is closed by zipping the opening from the waistband all the way down to the right hem. The choice of closing either the right or left scalable opening first may be switched, depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. In another embodiment, the closing of the scalable openings starts from the hem ends of the openings. In yet another embodiment, the closing of the scalable openings may start from either the waist on the top or the hem at the bottom. For example, double end opening zippers can be used to achieve this flexibility.
In this embodiment, the long scalable openings are closed using zippers. In other embodiments, they can also be closed by other fasteners or arrays of other fasteners, for example, long strips of hook and loop fasteners, a long array of buttons and holes, a long array of hooks and eyes, etc. Accordingly, putting on the pant device allows both feet of the user to remain on the floor throughout the whole process, if necessary. Thus, the user does not need to balance his/her body on a single foot while lifting and putting the other foot into a long tube of conventional pants. The user can also keep shoes, boots or slippers on during the whole process. It also allows a caregiver or other helper to remove the pant device with case in one piece, and with no risk of having to roll the pants down and create more of a mess during an unexpected accident. Thus, the removal process may be a reverse of the above process and retains the same advantages.
In another embodiment, each leg component of the pants has a releasable seam, respectively, along the outside thereof. That is, each leg of the pants is openable along a scam extending from the bottom end of the leg upwardly, preferably clear to the waist. Each such seam comprises a first part which overlaps a second part to close the seam. As explained hereafter, fasteners are provided to hold the first part to the second part and thereby close the seam. Preferably, the first and second parts of the seams are reinforced with one or more additional layers of a suitable material, as is commonly understood in the clothing industry, so as to prevent tearing when the pants are opened and to provide a foundation for mounting fasteners.
A plurality of hook and loop fastener segments or their equivalent, are disposed at intervals along each seam from the bottom end of the leg to the waist. Each such fastener segment has a hook portion, preferably mounted on the inside of the first part of each scam, and a loop portion, preferably mounted on the outside of the second part of each seam. Such fasteners are marketed under the trademark, VELCRO®. Thus, the pants can be worn by a user by fastening corresponding hook and loop portions of the fasteners together with the legs of the pants wrapped around the legs of the user. When the pants are to be removed, the front waist adjacent the top of a scam is simply pulled away from the back waist, which causes the fasteners to release, ordinarily in sequence from the top to the bottom of the seam.
Preferably, the lowest fasteners on each leg are chosen to offer less resistance to force than the higher fasteners, so as to release more readily. This is because the force to release the pants is applied at the waist, some distance from the bottom of the pants, which makes application of the same force at the bottom as at the top difficult and which minimizes stretching of the fabric. It has been found that the fasteners will perform well if they all offer the same resistance to release, though they may be chosen to have increasing resistance from the bottom to the top with some advantage gained. However, the top fasteners preferably have greater resistance than the bottom fasteners, so as to ensure that the waist does not release inadvertently.
In use, to reattach the pants on a person without having to pass feet and dirty shoes through the legs, the fabric can simply be draped around the legs and the hook and loop surfaces can easily be mated by sliding a hand along the outside of the seam. Only slight pressure is required to obtain closure and, in contrast to buttons, snaps, or zippers, the alignment need not be exact to accomplish closure.
Generally, the positions of the scalable openings are symmetric to each other and roughly at the front center of each leg. The symmetry is conducive to aesthetics, but not required. The front center of the leg position makes it convenient and comfortable for the user to close the scalable openings without too much twist of his/her body. In another embodiment, the openings can be at the outseam position of the leg. The outseam position moves the opening to a less visible position and has a more conventional look. The outseam position also mitigates the bending of the opening when the leg bends. It can also reduce the contact between the opening and the knee when the leg bends. It also allows the knee areas to have extra reinforcement patches to enhance the durability of the pants. In another embodiment, the openings are not symmetric to each other. This makes it easier for each side to accommodate its own accessories, such as pockets.
In one embodiment, the pant device does not necessarily cover the legs down to the ankle area. It may be shorter. In one embodiment, it covers from the waist down to a position that passes the knee and is above the shin. In another embodiment, it covers from the waist down to the mid of the thighs.
In one embodiment, the hook and loop fasteners and elastic band provide redundancy, allowing the pants to function properly when one of the fasteners fails. It is clear that other combinations of fasteners, or other number of fasteners, are within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Further, the adjustment of waistband size is important to accommodate a range of waist sizes, of both different users and the same user at different times. In one embodiment, the backside of the waistband is an elastic band. The elastic band allows automatic adjustment of the waistband size to fit the user. The left and/or right side of the waistband has a hook and loop fastener that can be used to adjust the waistband size. The hook and loop fasteners have the benefit of good conformation of the waistband after adjustment. The adjustment of the waistband is usually done after the first time putting on the pants. Once the waistband size is appropriately adjusted, a user usually does not need to adjust it again unless his/her waist size changes substantially.
In one embodiment, the hem has a channel with an adjustment device. This adjustment device can tighten the hem, as needed. In one implementation, this device is a cord lock and an clastic cord enclosing the hem inside a channel. In another embodiment, elastic material is disposed within gathers around the waist of the pants, and in gathers around each of the ankles, respectively. This permits the pants to be adjusted snugly, yet comfortably to the size of the user.
Many fabrics could be used to make the pants in the present disclosure. These fabrics include what are used in normal pants, including fabrics made of natural and synthetic fibers, such as cotton, polyester, nylon, etc. The fabrics could be chosen based on the applications of the pants. For example, wind pants may choose windproof fabrics and utility pants that are subjected to frequent wear and tear may choose strong fabrics, such as nylon, etc. However, other material may be used, particularly where the pants are adapted for use by persons having a physical infirmity, disability, handicap, etc.
Furthermore, the pant device can be available in different sizes and shapes, depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. Thus, many styles of pants could be made in accordance with the present disclosure. These include, but are not limited to, jeans, wind pants, utility pants, dress pants, etc. The different styles of pants may choose the cut, pockets, and accessories that are appropriate for their applications.
In yet another embodiment, the incontinence pant device comprises a plurality of indicia.
In yet another embodiment, a method of removing a pair of pants as one piece without rolling the pants down is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing an incontinence pant device comprising a body component with two leg components, and a zipper extending from a waistband down each leg component. The method also comprises securing the incontinence pant device to a user via zipping the leg components around a user. Further, the method comprises, once an unexpected accident occurs, unzipping the leg components via the zippers. Finally, the method comprises removing the pant device as one piece to reduce the mess of the unexpected accident.
Numerous benefits and advantages of this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art to which it pertains, upon reading and understanding the following detailed specification.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the disclosed innovation are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles disclosed herein can be employed and are intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features will become apparent from the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The description refers to provided drawings in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the different views, and in which:
The innovation is now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding thereof. It may be evident, however, that the innovation can be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate a description thereof. Various embodiments are discussed hereinafter. It should be noted that the figures are described only to facilitate the description of the embodiments. They are not intended as an exhaustive description of the invention and do not limit the scope of the invention. Additionally, an illustrated embodiment need not have all the aspects or advantages shown. Thus, in other embodiments, any of the features described herein from different embodiments may be combined.
As noted above, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that provides users with a set of one-piece pants that can be easily applied and removed via a zipper. There is also a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that enables nurses and other caregivers to remove the pants in one piece without having to roll them down the body and risk making a mess. Further, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that includes both clastic bands and hook and loop fasteners that help keep the pants secure while being worn. Moreover, there is a long-felt need in the art for a device that makes it much easier for disabled individuals to put on and take off their own pants. Further, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that comprises a zipper to allow a user to easily remove or apply the pants, as needed. Finally, there is a long-felt need in the art for an incontinence pant device that can be manufactured as everyday wear for elderly, handicapped, and disabled people.
The present invention, in one exemplary embodiment, is a novel incontinence pant device. The device is a specialized pair of pants that allows caregivers to remove soiled pants more easily from a patient in a single piece. The incontinence pant device comprises a body component with two leg components. Further, the pant device features a zipper or other closure that can be undone to easily remove the pants in a single piece. Additionally, users can keep the pant device secure around their waist via an elastic band and hook and loop fasteners. Accordingly, if the pant device becomes soiled and needs to be removed from the patient, the caregiver may simply unzip the pant device and remove the pants in a single piece, without risk of an additional mess. The present invention also includes a novel method of removing a pair of pants as one piece without rolling the pants down. The method includes the steps of providing an incontinence pant device comprising a body component with two leg components, and a zipper extending from a waistband down each leg component. The method also comprises securing the incontinence pant device to a user via zipping the leg components around a user. Further, the method comprises once an unexpected accident occurs, unzipping the leg components via the zippers. Finally, the method comprises removing the pant device as one piece to reduce the mess of the unexpected accident.
Referring initially to the drawings,
Accordingly, the incontinence pant device 100 is an integrated one-piece component. Specifically, the incontinence pant device 100 comprises a body component 102 with two leg components 104 terminating in respective lower ends 110. Each leg component 104 has a zipper 106 that is scalable or other suitable securing means as is known in the art. In an open position, the left leg component 104 has an open zipper 106 with two sides 112, while the right leg has an open zipper 106 with two sides 112. Thus, the pant device 100 has two long scalable openings 114, the first scalable opening 114 and the second scalable opening 114, one in each of the leg components 104. Both openings 114 run the entire length of the pant device 100 from the waistband 108 to the hems 116 of the legs. The long scalable openings 114 are constructed with two long zippers 106 (i.e., a zipper for the right leg and a zipper for the left leg). The openings 114 are closed when the two zippers 106 close. In one embodiment, some or all of the zippers 106 are water resistant or waterproof.
Furthermore, the body component 102 comprises a waistband 108. The waistband 108 is an elastic band 118 or elastic gathers to allow the waistband 108 to secure around a user's waist. In another embodiment, the waistband 108 also comprises hook and loop fasteners 120, or other suitable fasteners, secured to extension tabs 122 at opposing ends 124 to further secure the waistband 108 around a user's waist. For example, the fasteners can be any suitable fasteners found in apparel, such as snaps, hook and loops, grips, frog and lace, buckle, hook and eye, ladder lock, etc., depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. When the fastener is secured, a closed waistband 108 is formed.
In use, a user would wrap the waistband 108 around the waist of a user, fasten the hook and loop fasteners 120 to form a closed waistband loop. With the closed waistband 108 resting on the waist of the user, the user can now use both hands to zip up the leg components 104. Specifically, the left leg component 104 is closed by zipping the opening 114 from the waistband 108 all the way down to the left hem 116. Further, the right leg component 104 is closed by zipping the opening 114 from the waistband 108 all the way down to the right hem 116. The choice of closing either the right or left scalable opening 114 first may be switched, depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. In another embodiment, the closing of the sealable openings starts from the hem ends of the openings. In yet another embodiment, the closing of the scalable openings 114 may start from either the waistband 108 on the top or the hem 116 at the bottom. For example, double end opening zippers can be used to achieve this flexibility.
In this embodiment, the long scalable openings 114 are closed using zippers 106. In other embodiments, they can also be closed by other fasteners or arrays of other fasteners, for example, long strips of hook and loop fasteners, a long array of buttons and holes, a long array of hooks and eyes, etc., depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. Accordingly, putting on the pant device 100 allows both feet of the user to remain on the floor throughout the whole process, if necessary. Thus, the user does not need to balance his/her body on a single foot while lifting and putting the other foot into a long tube of conventional pants. The user can also keep shoes, boots, or slippers on during the whole process. It also allows a caregiver or other helper to remove the pant device 100 with ease in one piece, and with no risk of having to roll the pants down and create more of a mess during an unexpected accident. Thus, the removal process may be a reverse of the above process and retains the same advantages.
In another embodiment, shown in
A plurality of hook and loop fastener segments 132 or their equivalent, are disposed at intervals along each seam 126 from the bottom end of the leg to the waist. Each such fastener segment 132 has a hook portion, preferably mounted on the inside of the first part 128 of each seam 126, and a loop portion, preferably mounted on the outside of the second part 130 of each seam 126. Such fasteners 132 are marketed under the trademark, VELCRO®. Thus, the pants can be worn by a user by fastening corresponding hook and loop portions 132 of the fasteners together with the legs of the pants wrapped around the legs of the user. When the pant device 100 is to be removed, the front waist adjacent the top of a seam 126 is simply pulled away from the back waist, which causes the fasteners 132 to release, ordinarily in sequence from the top to the bottom of the scam 126.
Preferably, the lowest fasteners 132 on each leg are chosen to offer less resistance to force than the higher fasteners 132, so as to release more readily. This is because the force to release the pants is applied at the waistband 108, some distance from the bottom 110 of the pants, which makes application of the same force at the bottom 110 as at the top 108 difficult and which minimizes stretching of the fabric. It has been found that the fasteners 132 will perform well if they all offer the same resistance to release, though they may be chosen to have increasing resistance from the bottom 110 to the top (i.e., waistband 108) with some advantage gained. However, the top fasteners 132 preferably have greater resistance than the bottom fasteners 132, so as to ensure that the waistband 108 does not release inadvertently.
In use, to reattach the pant device 100 on a person without having to pass feet and dirty shoes through the legs, the fabric can simply be draped around the legs and the hook and loop surfaces 132 can easily be mated by sliding a hand along the outside of the seam 126. Only slight pressure is required to obtain closure and, in contrast to buttons, snaps, or zippers, the alignment need not be exact to accomplish closure.
Generally, the positions of the scalable openings 114 are symmetric to each other and roughly at the front center of each leg component 104. The symmetry is conducive to aesthetics, but not required. The front center of the leg position makes it convenient and comfortable for the user to close the scalable openings 114 without too much twist of his/her body. In another embodiment, the openings 114 can be at the outseam position of the leg component 104. The outseam position moves the opening 114 to a less visible position and has a more conventional look. The outseam position also mitigates the bending of the opening 114 when the leg bends. It can also reduce the contact between the opening 114 and the knee when the leg bends. It also allows the knee areas to have extra reinforcement patches to enhance the durability of the pants. In another embodiment, the openings 114 are not symmetric to each other. This makes it easier for each side to accommodate its own accessories, such as pockets.
In one embodiment, the pant device 100 does not necessarily cover the legs down to the ankle area. It may be shorter. In an embodiment, it covers from the waist down to a position that passes the knee and is above the shin. In another embodiment, it covers from the waist down to the mid of the thighs. Generally, the pant device 100 can be any suitable shape and size as is known in the art, depending on the needs and/or wants of a user.
Furthermore, the hook and loop fasteners 120 and elastic band 118 provide redundancy, allowing the pants to function properly when one of the fasteners fails. It is clear that other combinations of fasteners, or other numbers of fasteners, are within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Further, the adjustment of waistband size is important to accommodate a range of waist sizes, of both different users and the same user at different times. In one embodiment, the backside of the waistband 108 is an elastic band 118. The elastic band 118 allows automatic adjustment of the waistband size to fit the user. The left and/or right side 124 of the waistband 108 has a hook and loop fastener 120 that can be used to adjust the waistband size. The hook and loop fasteners 120 have the benefit of good conformation of the waistband 108 after adjustment. The adjustment of the waistband 108 is usually done after the first time putting on the pants. Once the waistband size is appropriately adjusted, a user usually does not need to adjust it again unless his/her waist size changes substantially.
In one embodiment, the hem 116 has a channel with an adjustment device. This adjustment device can tighten the hem 116 as needed. In one implementation, this device is a cord lock and an elastic cord enclosing the hem 116 inside a channel. In another embodiment, elastic material is disposed within gathers around the waist of the pants, and in gathers around each of the ankles, respectively. This permits the pant device 100 to be adjusted snugly, yet comfortably to the size of the user.
Many fabrics could be used to make the pant device 100 in the present disclosure. These fabrics include what are used in normal pants, including fabrics made of natural and synthetic fibers, such as cotton, polyester, nylon, etc. The fabrics could be chosen based on the applications of the pants. For example, wind pants may choose windproof fabrics and utility pants that are subjected to frequent wear and tear may choose strong fabrics, such as nylon, etc. However, other material may be used, particularly where the pants are adapted for use by persons having a physical infirmity, disability, handicap, etc. Additionally, the pant device 100 is manufactured of a suitable material, such that the device 100 is washable and easily laundered for repeat wear. In one embodiment, the pant device 100 can be manufactured of a material to make the pants disposable. Accordingly, the pant device 100 can be disposed of after an unexpected accident has occurred.
Furthermore, the pant device 100 can be available in different sizes and shapes, depending on the needs and/or wants of a user. Thus, many styles of pants could be made in accordance with the present disclosure. These include, but are not limited to, jeans, wind pants, utility pants, dress pants, etc. The different styles of pants may choose the cut, pockets, and accessories that are appropriate for their applications.
In yet another embodiment, the incontinence pant device 100 comprises a plurality of indicia 134. The body component 102 and the leg components 104 of the device 100 may include advertising, trademark, other letters, designs, or characters, printed, painted, stamped, or integrated into the body component 102 or leg components 104, or any other indicia 134 as is known in the art. Specifically, any suitable indicia 134 as is known in the art can be included, such as, but not limited to, patterns, logos, emblems, images, symbols, designs, letters, words, characters, animals, advertisements, brands, etc., that may or may not be clothes or brand related.
Certain terms are used throughout the following description and claims to refer to particular features or components. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, different users may refer to the same feature or component by different names. This document does not intend to distinguish between components or features that differ in name but not structure or function. As used herein “incontinence pant device”, “pant device”, and “device” are interchangeable and refer to the incontinence pant device 100 of the present invention.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the incontinence pant device 100 of the present invention can be of any suitable size and configuration as is known in the art without affecting the overall concept of the invention, provided that it accomplishes the above-stated objectives. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the incontinence pant device 100 as shown in
Various modifications and additions can be made to the exemplary embodiments discussed without departing from the scope of the present invention. While the embodiments described above refer to particular features, the scope of this invention also includes embodiments having different combinations of features and embodiments that do not include all of the described features. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications, and variations as fall within the scope of the claims, together with all equivalents thereof.
What has been described above includes examples of the claimed subject matter. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the claimed subject matter, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the claimed subject matter are possible. Accordingly, the claimed subject matter is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Furthermore, to the extent that the term “includes” is used in either the detailed description or the claims, such term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising” as “comprising” is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
The present application claims priority to, and the benefit of, U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/447,939, which was filed on Feb. 24, 2023, and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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| 63447939 | Feb 2023 | US |
