US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 30 for "Systems for activating and/or authenticating electronic devices for operation with footwear and other uses" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,665, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Systems for activating and/or authenticating electronic devices for operation with footwear and other uses" was invented by Charles Whipple Case Jr. (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles of footwear and footwear systems include modules, e.g., for sensing physical and/or physiological characteristics associated with use of the footwear or for performing other functions. Such systems and methods may use physical or other interaction(s) between the module and the article of footwear for activating and/or deactivating the module and/or sensing de...