US Patent Issued to NIKE on Aug. 11 for "Foamed articles and methods of making the same" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,130, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Foamed articles and methods of making the same" was invented by Yihua Chang (Portland, Ore.), Lyle R. Hanson (Beaverton, Ore.), Petr Khlyabich (Beaverton, Ore.) and Richard L. Watkins (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Foamed articles including a foamed thermoplastic elastomeric material for articles of footwear. In one aspect, a method for making a foamed article comprises placing an article comprising a foamable material and carbon dioxide in a vessel, maintaining the vessel at a first pressure and first temperature at which the carbon dioxide is a li...