ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,186, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Footwear-based body presence detector" was invented by Phillip Meneau (Portland, Ore.) and Erin McAuliffe (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Active footwear can include a system to automatically detect a presence or absence of a foot. In an example, the system can be configured to provide information about a liquid saturation level that can affect a sensitivity or performance of the foot presence sensor. The system can use time-multiplexed signals to excite respective different electrodes in a foot presence sensor, and the electrodes can generate respe...