US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 9 for "Bladder for article of footwear" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,617, issued on June 9, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Bladder for article of footwear" was invented by Zachary M. Elder (Portland, Ore.), Roger Paul Murphy (Beaverton, Ore.) and Lee D. Peyton (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bladder for an article of footwear includes a plate, a first tensile layer disposed adjacent to a first side of the plate, and a second tensile layer disposed on an opposite side of the plate from the first tensile layer, the second tensile layer joined to the first tensile layer through the plate by a plurality of inner bonds. The bladder additionally includes a first barrier layer di...