US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 2 for "Apparel and location information system" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,762, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Apparel and location information system" was invented by SantoshKumar Balakrishnan (Portland, Ore.) and Jordan M. Rice (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for calculating athletic activity parameters. Multiple housings are position at different locations on a user's body. The housings are configured to be removably engaged with an electronic module that includes a sensor and a processor configured to calculate athletic activity parameters. Each housing is connected to or includes an identification memory that stores infor...