ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,328, issued on April 15, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Footwear including an incline adjuster" was invented by Steven H. Walker (Camas, Wash.), Raymond L. Nicoli (Seattle) and Rolando Pausal (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure may include chambers and a transfer channel containing an electrorheological fluid. Electrodes may be positioned to create, in response to a voltage across the electrodes, an electrical field in at least a portion of the electrorheological fluid in the transfer channel. The sole structure may further include a controller including a processor and memory. At least one ...