US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 25 for "Shoe last extension as an origin" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,575, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Shoe last extension as an origin" was invented by Dragan Jurkovic (Taichung, Taiwan), Ming-Feng Jean (Douliou, Taiwan), Chin-Yi Lin (Douliou, Taiwan) and Chun-Chi Lin (Xihu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating critical control points on a part or combination of parts during a manufacturing process involves mating, directly or indirectly, a jig extension to the part or parts. A pattern on the jig extension defines an origin point that is used to track the position of the part or parts during manufacturing, such as during location-sensitive op...