ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,403, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Vision-guided stitching systems and logic for fabricating engineered textiles with interstitched superposed wires" was invented by Matthew D. Nordstrom (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are automated manufacturing systems for fabricating engineered textiles, footwear and apparel formed with such engineered textiles, methods for making such engineered textiles, and memory-stored, processor-executable instructions for operating such manufacturing systems. An automated manufacturing system constructs engineered textiles from workpieces composed of...