US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 10 for "Lightweight knitted upper and methods of manufacture" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,824, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Lightweight knitted upper and methods of manufacture" was invented by Travis J. Berrian (Beaverton, Ore.), Mark S. Bruce (Beaverton, Ore.), Ajay Chadha (Beaverton, Ore.), Stephen J. Hipp (Beaverton, Ore.), Timothy K. Liles (Beaverton, Ore.), John S. MacGilbert (Beaverton, Ore.), William C. McFarland II (Beaverton, Ore.), Colin M. Runkle (Beaverton, Ore.), Peter R. Savage (Beaverton, Ore.), Hirotaka Usui (Beaverton, Ore.) and Yang Zhao (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacture, including exposing the upper to steam while in a tensioned s...