US Patent Issued to NIKE on March 31 for "Articles of footwear including an integrated pocket" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,730, issued on March 31, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Articles of footwear including an integrated pocket" was invented by Yuchung K. Chen (Portland, Ore.), Neil Crumbleholme (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Roberto De Marchi (Treviso, Italy), Tetsuya T. Minami (Portland, Ore.) and Timothy J. Smith (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Uppers for articles of footwear include an integrated pocket, e.g., accessible from the outside of the upper and/or article of footwear. In at least some examples, the pocket may be formed solely from structural components of the footwear upper, i.e., structural components provided in th...