ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,856, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Writing to apparel by flexing piezoelectric generator" was invented by Keith A. Folske (Wilsonville, Ore.), Vikram Malhotra (Portland, Ore.), Holli Pheil (Portland, Ore.) and Summer L. Schneider (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable article, a system, and methods include a structural material configured to enable the wearable article to the worn on a body, a piezoelectric generator, positioned with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage, a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, co...