US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 23 for "Knit bra" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,364, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Knit bra" was invented by Jesse L. Burton (Portland, Ore.), Paul R. Montgomery (Portland, Ore.), Tara Pennington (Portland, Ore.), Amy X. Toth (Portland, Ore.) and Samantha Woodard (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein are directed to a bra having a front portion with a double-knit structure having different ratios of float stitches to tuck stitches within intermediate courses within the double-knit structure. The front portion includes a Y-shaped region and a first breast-contacting region, where intermediate courses have a greater ratio ...