US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 10 for "Articles of footwear with knitted components and methods of manufacturing the same" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,814, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Articles of footwear with knitted components and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Gemma Brown (Beaverton, Ore.), Chaokun Huangfu (Portland, Ore.), James Molyneux (Portland, Ore.), Kristen E. Orme (Portland, Ore.), Peter R. Savage (Aloha, Ore.), Gagandeep Singh (Haeundae-gu, South Korea), Seth M. Wiberg (Beaverton, Ore.) and Roberto Zavala (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knitted component having an outer perimeter and a common portion, which may be a centrally-located region, such as a throat region and/or a collar region. A plural...