US Patent Issued to NIKE on Dec. 23 for "Recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile having silicone-coated fibers" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,867, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile having silicone-coated fibers" was invented by Krista J. Connors (Beaverton, Ore.), Dallas Lund (Portland, Ore.) and Yang-Hua Ou (Miaoli, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein are directed to a recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile suitable for use in apparel and other articles and methods of making the same. In example aspects, the asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile includes a first face formed, at least in part from a first entangled web of fibers and an opposi...