US Patent Issued to NIKE on June 9 for "Footwear with fiber-reinforced fluid-filled bladder" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,618, issued on June 9, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Footwear with fiber-reinforced fluid-filled bladder" was invented by Zachary M. Elder (Portland, Ore.), Laura E. Flores Sandoval (Hillsboro, Ore.), Todd W. Miller (Portland, Ore.) and Lee D. Peyton (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a fluid filled bladder that is formed from a plurality of coextensive, stacked polymeric sheets. An anti-weld material is disposed between two of the polymeric sheets within a central region of the sheets, the anti-weld material operative to inhibit a first polymeric sheet fro...