US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 9 for "Multi-layer extruded uppers for articles of footwear and other foot-receiving devices" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,731, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Multi-layer extruded uppers for articles of footwear and other foot-receiving devices" was invented by Nathan L. Braithwaite (Cornelius, Ore.), Matthew R. Pauk (Portland, Ore.) and Todd Anthony Waatti (Battleground, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upper components for footwear include: (a) a first layer including a first filament including first plural, non-intersecting, spaced apart path segments (wherein the first filament may have a width dimension of less than 3 mm wide); and (b) a second layer including a second filament including second plural, non-inte...