US Patent Issued to NIKE on July 28 for "Plate for footwear" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,642, issued on July 28, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Plate for footwear" was invented by Emily Farina (North Plains, Ore.), Lysandre Follet (Portland, Ore.), Geng Luo (Portland, Ore.), Rachel M. Savage (Beaverton, Ore.) and Kristin Yetman (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate for an article of footwear having a sole structure includes an anterior-most point disposed in a forefoot region of the sole structure, a posterior-most point disposed closer to a heel region of the sole structure than the anterior-most point, and a concave portion extending between the anterior-most point and the posterior-most...