US Patent Issued to NIKE on April 1 for "Footwear strobel with bladder and tensile component and method of manufacturing" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,784, issued on April 1, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Footwear strobel with bladder and tensile component and method of manufacturing" was invented by Arick Auyang (Portland, Ore.), Derek Houng (Portland, Ore.), Jason R. Meeker (Portland, Ore.), Eric A Schmalzer (Portland, Ore.), Jeffrey S. To (Portland, Ore.) and Geoffrey A Weston (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear includes a strobel that has a polymeric bladder defining an interior cavity and configured to retain a fluid in the interior cavity. The polymeric bladder has a peripheral flange extending around at least a portion of a ...