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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Inventor:
Arick Auyang, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A43C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A43C 1/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
An article such as an article of footwear includes a lacing system having two laces that are routed through lace-receiving passages in two distinct zones of a body of the article. A first lace can be routed through a first set of lace-receiving passages in a first zone, and a second lace can be routed through a second set of lace-receiving passages in a second zone. A method of lacing an article includes routing the first lace and the second lace through the lace-receiving passages of the respective zones.