US Patent Issued to NIKE on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for manufacturing a composite textile" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,282, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Methods and systems for manufacturing a composite textile" was invented by Baron C. Brandt (Portland, Ore.), Dallas Lund (Portland, Ore.), Andrea J. Staub (Portland, Ore.) and Gaorong Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a composite textile that can be sustainable, as well as methods and systems for constructing the composite textile and recollecting and harvesting excess material (e.g., remnants). In at least some examples, a first pattern piece is cut from a first material layer, and a second pattern piece is cut from ...