ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,990, issued on March 24, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Footwear component manufacturing system" was invented by Paul Irving Archer (Portland, Ore.), Hossein Allen Baghdadi (Portland, Ore.), Jay Constantinou (Portland, Ore.), Gregory Paul Dufour (Portland, Ore.), Sami Mohamad Fakhouri (Portland, Ore.), Floyd Whitney Miles (Beaverton, Ore.), Joseph Thomas Muth (North Plains, Ore.) and Bradley C. Tutmark (Aloha, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an injector, a press, and a robotic conveyance is used to form a physically foamed article of footwear component from a single-phase solution of a polymeric...