US Patent Issued to NIKE on Oct. 7 for "Recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,453, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile" was invented by Dallas Lund (Portland, Ore.), William C. McFarland II (Portland, Ore.), Yang-Hua Ou (Miaoli, Taiwan) and Joshua Patrick Williams (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein are directed to a recyclable, asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile suitable for use in apparel and other articles and methods of making the same. In example aspects, the asymmetrical-faced composite nonwoven textile includes a first face formed, at least in part from a first entangled web of fiber...