US Patent Issued to NIKE on May 27 for "Automated 3-D modeling of shoe parts" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,395, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Automated 3-D modeling of shoe parts" was invented by Patrick C. Regan (Taichung, Taiwan), Chih-Chi Chang (Douliu, Taiwan), Kuo-Hung Lee (Douliu, Taiwan) and Ming-Feng Jean (Douliu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing of a shoe is enhanced by creating 3-D models of shoe parts. For example, a laser beam may be projected onto a shoe-part surface, such that a projected laser line appears on the shoe part. An image of the projected laser line may be analyzed to determine coordinate information, which may be converted into geometric coordinate values usab...