US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 23 for "Gloves including bladder components" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,870, issued on June 23, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Gloves including bladder components" was invented by Isaac Farr (Beaverton, Ore.), George S. Kim (Wilsonville, Ore.), Oliver McLachlan (Beaverton, Ore.), Levi J. Patton (Portland, Ore.) and Christian Alexander Steinbeck (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bladder components and gloves that include such bladder components attenuate impact forces incident on the glove and/or a wearer's hand. Such bladder components and gloves may dampen impact forces applied by a game ball or other projectile to the glove (and thus to the wearer's hand) and/or reduce the e...