ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,460, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boa Technology Inc. (Denver).
"Reel-based lacing system" was invented by Mark S. Soderberg (Conifer, Colo.), Michael J. Nickel (Golden, Colo.) and Sean Cavanagh (Golden, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lacing system configured to selectively adjust the size of an opening on an object and allow for the incremental release of the lace within the lacing system. The lacing system can have a reel that includes a housing, a spool supported by the housing, and a knob supported by the housing. The reel can be configured so that cable is gathered in the channel formed in the spool when the spool i...