Patent milestone highlights a decade-long journey from early product ideas to the development of a patented adult compression garment

United States, 18th Sep 2026 — Inventor, author, and entrepreneur Brett Boles-Murphy has received her first utility patent for a functional compression garment, marking a significant milestone in a product-development journey that began with an effort to solve a practical clothing challenge involving her daughter.

The patent, granted in October 2025 after approximately five years of examination, represents years of product development, prototyping, testing, iteration, and refinement. For Boles-Murphy, the milestone also reflects a broader career focused on turning ideas into tangible products and services.

From Early Ideas to Invention

Boles-Murphy’s interest in creating and developing new ideas began during childhood. She spent time writing stories and poems, recording original songs, and developing ideas intended to make everyday life easier for others.

Her younger brother, Alan, was among her earliest collaborators. The two spent time developing ideas and experimenting with limited resources, an experience that helped establish Boles-Murphy’s interest in creating and testing new concepts.

Her professional path initially took her through finance, accounting, and project management before she returned more directly to invention and product development. Her legal education and experience managing projects and teams also became part of the foundation she later used to navigate the product-development and patent process.

A Practical Problem Became a Product Development Opportunity

In 2015, Boles-Murphy formally began developing her career as an inventor and author. One of her early projects emerged from a practical problem she observed with her daughter, who struggled to use the restroom while wearing a traditional children’s leotard.

Boles-Murphy developed a children’s leotard intended to address that challenge. Although the garment was not granted a patent, the development process provided experience that informed her subsequent work on an adult compression garment.

The lessons learned through developing and refining the children’s garment contributed to her approach to subsequent product iterations, including the compression garment that ultimately became the subject of her first utility patent.

Years of Prototyping and Testing

Boles-Murphy later developed a functional compression garment known as The Bawdy Filter®. During the product-development process, she created and evaluated multiple prototypes.

Between 2019 and 2020, she spent approximately 300 days wearing prototypes as part of her product-testing process. The testing enabled her to evaluate factors including fit, construction, durability, comfort, and wearability while continuing to refine the design.

The development process extended over several years as Boles-Murphy continued working on inventions and other products while also serving in corporate roles.

Building a Career Around Product Development

Throughout her career, Boles-Murphy has worked with creatives, entrepreneurs, and business owners on projects involving apparel, books, food products, intellectual property, experiences, and other concepts.

Her experience has reinforced the importance of testing, iteration, problem-solving, and persistence when developing an idea into a tangible product.

The October 2025 patent grant represents the culmination of one of those development efforts and provides a tangible milestone in her continuing work as an inventor.

A Milestone Beyond the Patent

For Boles-Murphy, receiving the patent represents more than protection for a single product. It marks the outcome of years spent developing ideas, evaluating prototypes, addressing practical problems, and navigating the uncertainty associated with bringing new concepts into reality.

Her experience also illustrates one of the less visible aspects of invention: product development can involve extended periods of experimentation before an idea reaches a meaningful milestone.

Boles-Murphy continues to advocate for creative problem-solving and continuous improvement, drawing on her experience in law, program management, entrepreneurship, and product development.

Her journey from childhood experimentation to a granted utility patent demonstrates how an initial idea can evolve through testing, refinement, and persistence into a tangible invention.

About SOW Business LLC

SOW Business LLC is a U.S.-based business focused on supporting entrepreneurship, product development, and innovative ideas. The company is associated with inventor and entrepreneur Brett L. Murphy and her work in developing products, intellectual property, and business concepts.

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Using the 2019 PEA base case Freight on Board (FOB) price of US$82/tonne, the Hopes Advance base-case study projects a post-tax NPV8 of US$1.4 billion.

Canada, 18th Sep 2026 – Global Stocks News – Sponsored content disseminated on behalf of Oceanic Iron Ore. On September 16, 2026, Oceanic Iron Ore (TSXV: FEO) issued a message to shareholders entitled “Overview of our Ungava Bay Assets”.

Oceanic is focused on the development of its 100% owned Hopes Advance, Morgan Lake and Roberts Lake iron ore projects located on the coast, in the Labrador Trough in Québec, Canada.

The flagship Hopes Advance Project has a NI 43-101 Measured & Indicated resource of about 1.36 billion tonnes at a head grade of 32.1% Fe. The project is located at tidewater. The PEA highlights that Oceanic will not require a railroad to get its iron ore to market, significantly reducing capital expenses and operating costs.  

Overview of our Ungava Bay Assets
Chris Batalha
CEO of Oceanic Iron Ore

Oceanic Iron Ore is developing three iron ore properties in Ungava Bay, Nunavik, Northern Québec. Our lead asset is Hopes Advance. The other two are Roberts Lake & Morgan Lake. All three assets are in the Labrador Trough, one of the most productive iron ore belts in the world. 

Ungava Bay is at 62°N latitude, the same distance from the equator as Anchorage, Alaska.  In June, the sun sets around midnight. In the dead of winter, we get five hours of daylight. The bay is 260 km wide at the mouth. Seasonal commercial activities include halibut fishing, Inuit seafood harvesting, eco-tourism and mineral exploration.

Our three properties comprise 3,703 mineral claims across a total land package of 1,568 km². The projects span 300 kilometres of iron formation near tidewater. Ungava Bay is part of a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction: politically stable, well-regulated, and with a long history of mineral development.

Roberts Lake & Morgan Lake have defined historical resources that are not included in the current PEA economics. In the context of a multi-generational iron ore mine complex, they are important assets, but we are now focused on Hopes Advance, a premier high-quality, low-cost iron ore project with robust economics.

Using the 2019 PEA base case Freight on Board (FOB) price of US$82/tonne, the Hopes Advance base-case study projects a post-tax NPV8 of US$1.4 billion. NPV is a financial metric used to assess an investment’s profitability by comparing the initial investment to projected future cash flows. The “8” in NPV8 indicates that we have applied an 8% annual discount rate to future post-tax cash flows. It reflects that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future because today’s dollar can be reinvested. The project has an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 17%.

At the current consensus long-term FOB price assumption of US$101/tonne, the Hopes Advance project has a post-tax NPV8 of US$2.3 billion and an IRR of 22%. 

The study projects Life of Mine (LOM) operating costs of US$30/tonne. We are close to tidewater, so we do not need rail infrastructure. That means we will not be dependent on 3rd-party-owned infrastructure, such as energy and ports. We would like to connect to the Hydro-Québec grid in time.

There is potential for a life-of-mine extension well beyond 28 years. The metallurgy demonstrates high weight and iron recoveries. Bench-scale and pilot plant testing indicate a high-quality product with 4.5% silica, low levels of other impurities, and a 66.6% iron grade.

Hopes Advance is 100% owned by Oceanic, with no offtake in place. We have signed letters of intent with the Québec government and the Inuit Community. I have confidence that the Hopes Advance project will appeal to a variety of strategic partners

In the next message, I will talk about the global demand drivers for iron ore.

By Chris Batalha
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Crossroads Gold is developing multiple gold projects in southeastern Australia, a metal-rich Tier-1 mining jurisdiction.

Canada, 18th Sep 2026 – Global Stocks News – Sponsored content disseminated on behalf of Crossroads Gold. On September 3, 2026, Crossroads Gold (TSXV: CRG) (OTCQB: CRGCF) (FSE: FI1) announced high-grade gold-in-soil assay results from its ongoing 2026 exploration program at the Pambula Gold Project in southeastern New South Wales, Australia.

Crossroads Gold is developing multiple gold projects in southeastern Australia, a metal-rich Tier-1 mining jurisdiction. CRG’s portfolio includes the Pambula Gold Project, the Pheasant Creek Project, the Steiglitz Gold Project and the Club Terrace Project.

The current exploration program focuses on defining priority drill targets at Pambula by integrating historic production data, LiDAR interpretation, soil geochemistry and field mapping across the broader goldfield.

In July 2026, Crossroads reported that its LiDAR interpretation had identified 122 adits, 115 shafts, 981 shallow prospecting pits and 708 interpreted trenches across the Pambula Goldfield.

“LiDAR is a laser-scanning process that detects subtle variations in the topographic surface, allowing us to identify the locations of old workings, pits and shafts,” Rex Motton, CEO & Director of Crossroads, told Guy Bennett, CEO of Global Stocks News (GSN). “LiDAR clearly shows where the old prospectors were working and the scale of their endeavours.”

“As we integrate geochemical results with the extensive historic workings identified by LiDAR, we are developing a more detailed picture of the Pambula Goldfield,” added Motton.

“That work is helping us focus our exploration efforts and prioritize what we believe are compelling targets ahead of our maiden and future drilling programs. Importantly, this sampling is generating substantially more drill targets than were contemplated in the original drill program.”

“We now have multiple high-grade gold-in-soil assays up to 24.6 g/t Au, along with numerous spatially associated anomalous (>0.1 g/t Au) samples across several areas of the historic goldfield,” stated Motton. “For us, the significance lies not only in the individual headline grades but also in the emerging distribution and consistency of the gold anomalism.”

Above: Gold in Soil Assay results >0.25 g/t Au for the Pambula Goldfield

Apart from the Pilot Fissure Zone, established from previous gold production and drilling, the strongest results continue to occur at the historic Hidden Treasure Zone and the newly identified Hidden Treasure North Zone, including assays of 24.6 g/t Au, 21.8 g/t Au, 11.5 g/t Au, 8.4 g/t Au and 6.64 g/t Au.

The Hidden Treasure zone has never been drilled, and it strikes almost parallel to the Pilot Fissure where previous drilling was focused.

“Most of the known mining at Hidden Treasure consists of adits and small shafts,” Motton told GSN. “There are no known deep workings, but we do have some old underground rock-chip assays from the adit that show widespread gold mineralization. Hidden Treasure is at the base of a hill spur and above a creek. We intend to drill it from the Pilot Fissure drill sites, working from west to east.”

“We conducted routine sampling along traverses across the zone at Hidden Treasure and were surprised by the high assay results from these early samples, so we collected additional samples and continued to obtain high numbers. This zone is the largest Au-As-Pb soil anomaly in the whole goldfield and has some of the highest gold grades.”

“Because Hidden Treasure strikes parallel to the Pilot Fault, it represents a distinct mineralized target zone. The projected convergence of the two zones at depth is particularly encouraging, as this type of structural setting can produce wider veins and higher-grade gold mineralization. A 1970 report proposed drilling this convergence, and our recent work is reinforcing its potential as a strong exploration target.”

Above: Updated Gold in Soil Sampling of the Pambula Goldfield 

The initial soil program is now complete at the historic Pambula Goldfield and the Back Creek Pyrophyllite prospect, with 1,390 soil samples collected. To date, 612 gold assays have been received, with a further 114 samples currently being assayed for gold and 664 samples being processed in preparation for X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyses and gold assaying. 

“The geological similarities between Pambula and the high-grade gold deposits of Mt Coolon and Vera–Nancy found in Queensland reinforce our view that Pambula has the hallmarks of a significant low-sulphidation epithermal gold system. With comparable volcanic host rocks, alteration style and structural controls, we believe Pambula offers strong potential for concealed high-grade vein discoveries.”

“At Pambula, our objective is to systematically test the high-grade gold targets being developed across the historic goldfield, using modern exploration methods and drilling to assess the scale, continuity and potential significance of the mineralization,” concluded Motton.

The scientific and technical information in this news release was reviewed and approved by Mr. Neil (Rex) Motton, who is a “Qualified Person” as defined in National Instrument (“NI”) 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Motton is the CEO and a Director of the Company and, accordingly, is not considered independent of the Company under NI 43-101. Mr. Motton has visited the Pambula Gold Project discussed in this disclosure.

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