US Patent Issued to NIKE on May 26 for "Lower-body garment with leak protection features" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,749, issued on May 26, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Lower-body garment with leak protection features" was invented by Shannan C. Carlino (Portland, Ore.), Cara Jackson (Portland, Ore.), Iustinia Koshkarooff (Portland, Ore.), Raegen A. Stauffer (Portland, Ore.) and Iris Lo (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower-body garment that has built-in leak protection. The built-in leak protection can be achieved through an integral gusset or an internal assembly that is positioned interior to an exterior layer that forms the lower-body garment. The internal assembly can include a front torso portion, a b...