US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 3 for "Bladder and sole structure for article of footwear" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,952, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Bladder and sole structure for article of footwear" was invented by Fidencio Campos II (Dallas, Ore.) and Tee L. Wan (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bladder for an article of footwear includes a support chamber and an expansion chamber. The support chamber has a top wall, a bottom wall, and a peripheral wall extending between the top wall and the bottom wall and defining a peripheral profile of the support chamber. The expansion chamber extends from the peripheral wall at a first end of the bladder. In some examples, the peripheral wall defines a fir...