US Patent Issued to NIKE on Sept. 8 for "Fastening assembly for a closure mechanism" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,650, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Fastening assembly for a closure mechanism" was invented by Andrew A. Owings (Beaverton, Ore.), Nicholas Buck (Camas, Wash.), Peter V. Nikiforov (Camas, Wash.), Shawn M. Close (Camas, Wash.) and Jeffery B. Kennedy (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects herein are directed to a releasable coupling device having a first housing structure that includes a temporary magnet and a second housing structure that includes a permanent magnet. The first housing structure is receivable by a receiving receptacle of the second housing structure. The releasable coupl...