ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,454, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Method for nonwoven textiles with variable zonal properties" was invented by Balwant S. Atwal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Daniel Morgan (Beaverton, Ore.), Will Stark (Portland, Ore.) and Patrick Williams (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a process to generate a nonwoven textile. In one example, the nonwoven textile may have layered, zonal properties resulting from entangling of two or more types of staple fibers through a merging region between the layers of staple fibers while maintaining distinct zones, each zone comprising ...