US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 16 for "Sole structures and articles of footwear including bladder systems with closable fluid line" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,270, issued on June 16, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Sole structures and articles of footwear including bladder systems with closable fluid line" was invented by Devin Bailly (Portland, Ore.), Levi J. Patton (Portland, Ore.) and Stuart D. Reinhardt (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sole structures and articles of footwear include: (a) a foot support bladder chamber; (b) a fluid reservoir chamber; (c) a fluid line extending between the foot support bladder chamber and the fluid reservoir chamber and placing the foot support bladder chamber in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir chamber, wherein t...