US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 24 for "Sole structure for article of footwear and article of footwear" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,876, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Sole structure for article of footwear and article of footwear" was invented by Matthew Bowman (Tigard, Ore.), Lee Gibson (Portland, Ore.), Joel Ryp Greenspan (Portland, Ore.) and Dylan Petrenka (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure for an article of footwear includes an outsole defining a ground-contacting surface, a midsole disposed between the outsole and the upper, and a plate attached to the midsole and defining a recess extending in a direction away from the outsole and toward the upper, the recess including a first retainer. The so...