ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,909, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Footwear products including data transmission capabilities" was invented by Charles W. Case Jr. (Lake Oswego, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Footwear systems include an article of footwear and a data transmission system engaged with the article of footwear. The transmission system transmits data to a remote system, such as a display system, another data transmission system, a processing system, etc. Such footwear systems further may include activation systems for activating the transmission and/or display systems. The transmitted data may be used for various pur...