US Patent Issued to NIKE on March 17 for "Garment with wipe zones" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,625, issued on March 17, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Garment with wipe zones" was invented by Jacob A. Fromer (Portland, Ore.) and Amir H. Morgan (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment having one or more wipe zones for transferring away perspiration from a wearer's skin upon contact with the wearer's skin is provided herein. The wipe zones may be comprised of hydrophobic material formed from yarns having a smaller denier per filament (DPF) than adjacent non-wipe zones on the garment. In some aspects, the DPF of the wipe-zone material is within a range of 0.025 to 0.0025. The wipe zones may be pos...