US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 30 for "Articles of footwear having modular, replaceable, and/or recyclable parts" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,664, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Articles of footwear having modular, replaceable, and/or recyclable parts" was invented by Michele Galasso (Portland, Ore.), Darryl Matthews (Portland, Ore.), William Moroski (Portland, Ore.), Danielle L Taylor (Portland, Ore.) and Yukiko Toyoda (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Footwear includes upper, midsole, and exterior sole components. One side of the upper component includes a first plurality of openings. This first plurality of openings includes two openings separated by a strip of upper component material. The midsole component is received i...