US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 24 for "Electrorheological fluid structure having strain relief element and method of fabrication" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,875, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Electrorheological fluid structure having strain relief element and method of fabrication" was invented by Steven H. Walker (Camas, Wash.) and Chin-Yuan Cheng (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article may include a first polymeric material layer having a surface. A first conductive trace may form at least a portion of the first layer surface. The article may further include a second polymeric material layer. The second layer may have a first surface, a portion of the second layer first surface being bonded to a portion of the first layer surface. T...