ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,650, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Gloves and/or other hand-receiving devices with inflatable components" was invented by George S. Kim (Wilsonville, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hand-receiving devices, such as gloves (e.g., sports gloves including baseball gloves, softball gloves, batting gloves, cricket gloves, golf gloves, America football gloves, weightlifting gloves, exercise gloves, goalkeeper gloves (e.g., for soccer, hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, etc.), and the like) include an inflatable component, such as a fluid-filled bladder component. The fluid-filled bladder component may be ...