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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2016
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Denis Schiller, Vancouver, WA (US);
Caleb W. Dyer, Beaverton, OR (US);
Zachary C. Wright, Beaverton, OR (US);
Jeremy D. Walker, Portland, OR (US);
Myron Maurer, West Linn, OR (US);
Eun Kyung Lee, Beaverton, OR (US);
NIKE, INC., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are articles of manufacture, methods of manufacturing articles, and methods of using articles of manufacture, having an open-cell foam material and a mesh component present on at least parts of an external surface of the article. The open-cell foam material and the mesh component can cooperate to effectively reduce soil accumulation on the external surface of the article when the external surface of the article comes into direct contact with wet soil.