ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,559, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Footwear plate" was invented by Aaron Bartel (Beaverton, Ore.), Risha Dupre (Tigard, Ore.), Emily Farina (Beaverton, Ore.), Lysandre Follet (Portland, Ore.), Stefan E. Guest (Portland, Ore.), Helene Hutchinson (Portland, Ore.), Sam Lacey (Portland, Ore.), Geng Luo (Portland, Ore.), Rachel M. Savage (Beaverton, Ore.), Christian Alexander Steinbeck (Portland, Ore.), Adam Thuss (Portland, Ore.) and Kristin Yetman (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate for an article of footwear includes a substrate, a first strand portion attached to the substrate via ...