Patents by Inventor PAUL R. MONTGOMERY

PAUL R. MONTGOMERY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240108084
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a knit lower-body garment, methods of manufacturing and/or forming the knit lower-body garment using a flat knitting process, and knit blanks used to form the knit lower-body garment. In example aspects, the knit lower-body garment is formed from a one-piece knit textile blank that includes partial-length knit courses in select locations to provide three-dimensional shaping to the resulting lower-body garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Paul R. Montgomery, Hemantha Manjula Wijesena
  • Publication number: 20240032611
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a first knit zone and a second knit zone. The first knit zone includes a knit structure with a single course of tuck binder stitches and having a first amount of flexural rigidity, and the second knit zone includes a knit structure with a plurality of tuck binder courses and having a second amount of flexural rigidity, which is different than the first amount of flexural rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventor: Paul R. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 11877605
    Abstract: A knit lower-body garment can be formed, using a flat knitting process and from knit blanks. In example aspects, the knit lower-body garment is formed from a one-piece knit textile blank that includes partial-length knit courses in select locations to provide three-dimensional shaping to the resulting lower-body garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul R. Montgomery, Hemantha Manjula Wijesena
  • Patent number: 11819064
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a first knit zone and a second knit zone. The first knit zone includes a knit structure with a single course of tuck binder stitches and having a first amount of flexural rigidity, and the second knit zone includes a knit structure with a plurality of tuck binder courses and having a second amount of flexural rigidity, which is different than the first amount of flexural rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Montgomery
  • Patent number: 11788217
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Josué Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Publication number: 20230048880
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 11560654
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit structure within a chest-covering portion. The tubular-jacquard knit structure includes interlocked courses formed by each front-stitch course intermittently interlocking with a back-stitch course. The tubular-jacquard knit structure is divided into a plurality of zones across the chest-covering portion that may vary based on how front-stitch courses interlock with back-stitch courses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 11484068
    Abstract: Aspects of a flat-knit support garment for an upper torso are provided. The flat-knit support garment may include a bra structure having a flat-knit bra material that includes a cup zone, a body zone, a wing zone, a strap zone, and a chestband zone. In some instances, a perimeter of the flat-knit bra comprising a neck opening and armhole openings includes a finished edge treatment corresponding to a high stretch modulus, covered yarn. Such finished edges are generated in seamless construction with the unitary, flat-knit structure of the flat-knit support garment for an upper torso. The flat-knit characteristics of the support garment for an upper torso may correspond to one or more of a flat-knit stitch sequence, a yarn type, and/or a finishing treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Paul R. Montgomery, Lori Sears, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 11486068
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Publication number: 20220192280
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a bra having a front portion with a double-knit structure having different ratios of float stitches to tuck stitches within intermediate courses within the double-knit structure. The front portion includes a Y-shaped region and a first breast-contacting region, where intermediate courses have a greater ratio of float stitches to tuck stitches within the Y-shaped region than within the first breast-contacting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jesse L. Burton, Paul R. Montgomery, Tara Pennington, Amy Toth, Samantha Woodard
  • Publication number: 20220151313
    Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a knit lower-body garment, methods of manufacturing and/or forming the knit lower-body garment using a flat knitting process, and knit blanks used to form the knit lower-body garment. In example aspects, the knit lower-body garment is formed from a one-piece knit textile blank that includes partial-length knit courses in select locations to provide three-dimensional shaping to the resulting lower-body garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Paul R. Montgomery, Hemantha Manjula Wijesena
  • Publication number: 20220098768
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit structure within a chest-covering portion. The tubular-jacquard knit structure includes interlocked courses formed by each front-stitch course intermittently interlocking with a back-stitch course. The tubular-jacquard knit structure is divided into a plurality of zones across the chest-covering portion that may vary based on how front-stitch courses interlock with back-stitch courses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 11225735
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit structure within a chest-covering portion. The tubular-jacquard knit structure includes interlocked courses formed by each front-stitch course intermittently interlocking with a back-stitch course. The tubular-jacquard knit structure is divided into a plurality of zones across the chest-covering portion, and the zones may include different versions of the tubular-jacquard knit structure based on how front-stitch courses interlock with back-stitch courses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 11142854
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Vanessa L. Lucas Gaus, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Samantha E. G. Woodard, Jesse L. Burton
  • Patent number: 11118288
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit zone with a plurality of front-stitch courses and a plurality of back-stitch courses, where each front stitch course intermittently interlocks with a back-stitch course to form a plurality of interlocked courses. Interlocking cross overs within a first interlocked course are offset from interlocking cross overs within an adjacent second interlocked course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Publication number: 20210123170
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 10920345
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a chest-covering portion having a knit textile region, which includes a plurality of courses fully spanning a dome-shaped portion. In addition, the knit textile region includes a plurality of partial-length courses partially spanning the dome-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Patent number: 10912340
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit structure in a chest-covering portion. The tubular-jacquard knit structure is divided into a plurality of zones across the chest-covering portion, and the zones may include different versions of the tubular-jacquard knit structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIKE, INC.
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Publication number: 20200232130
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a tubular-jacquard knit structure within a chest-covering portion. The tubular-jacquard knit structure includes interlocked courses formed by each front-stitch course intermittently interlocking with a back-stitch course. The tubular-jacquard knit structure is divided into a plurality of zones across the chest-covering portion, and the zones may include different versions of the tubular-jacquard knit structure based on how front-stitch courses interlock with back-stitch courses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Josue Diaz, Virginia Meckley, Paul R. Montgomery, Nicole Rendone, Andrea J. Staub
  • Publication number: 20200170310
    Abstract: An upper-torso garment includes a first knit zone and a second knit zone. The first knit zone includes a knit structure with a single course of tuck binder stitches and having a first amount of flexural rigidity, and the second knit zone includes a knit structure with a plurality of tuck binder courses and having a second amount of flexural rigidity, which is different than the first amount of flexural rigidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Paul R. Montgomery