US Patent Issued to NIKE on July 7 for "Bladder for article of footwear or apparel" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,698, issued on July 7, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Bladder for article of footwear or apparel" was invented by Yi-Chen Chou (Taichung City, Taiwan), Yen-Lin Lee (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chih-Ta Chien (Meishan Township, Taiwan) and Chia-Chi Lin (Zhuqi Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bladder for an article of footwear includes a first barrier having a first series of peaks and a first series of valleys, a second barrier having a second series of peaks and a second series of valleys, peaks of the second series of peaks being aligned with peaks of the first series of peaks and valleys of the second seri...