US Patent Issued to NIKE on July 1 for "Apparel with cling reduction features" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,884, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Apparel with cling reduction features" was invented by Daniel P. Morgan (Beaverton, Ore.), Kyle Schepke (Portland, Ore.) and Joshua Patrick Williams (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein are directed to articles of apparel formed from a base textile and including a plurality of discrete overlay film structures affixed to the base textile at one or more locations on the article of apparel. When exposed to an external stimulus, the film structures undergo an increase in dimension in at least the z-direction and the base textile undergoes a chang...