US Patent Issued to NIKE on April 21 for "Footwear mold system for injection-molding" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,684, issued on April 21, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Footwear mold system for injection-molding" was invented by Hossein Allen Baghdadi (Portland, Ore.), Sami Mohamad Fakhouri (Portland, Ore.), Floyd Whitney Miles (Beaverton, Ore.), Joseph Thomas Muth (North Plains, Ore.) and Bradley C. Tutmark (Aloha, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tooling and components of an injection-molding system may be used to mold a foam article. The tooling and components may include features that control parameters of the injection-molding and foaming process, such as temperature, pressure, shot size, shot placement, and the like." ...