US Patent Issued to NIKE on July 14 for "Knitted component with an inner layer having a thermoplastic material and related method" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,203, issued on July 14, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Knitted component with an inner layer having a thermoplastic material and related method" was invented by Adrian Meir (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include one or more of the following steps: knitting a first knit layer and a second knit layer on a knitting machine, where the first knit layer and the second knit layer each include a plurality of intermeshed loops, and where at least one loop of the first knit layer is intermeshed with at least one loop of the second knit layer; inlaying an inlaid strand between the first knit layer and...