Patent ID: 11900432
Assignee: NIKE, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  A  B | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for manufacturing customized articles of footwear, comprising:
a computing system that receives input data including customer-selected evaluations of a plurality of structural characteristics of a first article of footwear, wherein the first article of footwear includes a first sole member with a first set of structural characteristics; and
a second sole member for a second article of footwear, wherein a surface of the second sole member is modified to include a first pattern of apertures and/or incisions based on the customer-selected evaluations of the plurality of structural characteristics to thereby modify the plurality of structural characteristics of the second sole member to have a second set of structural characteristics that differ from the first set of structural characteristics;
wherein the computing system stores information relating to the first article of footwear in a manner to associate the first article of footwear: (a) with a customer and (b) with a first specific iteration of a customization cycle associated with the customer;
wherein the computing system further stores the customer-selected evaluation of the plurality of structural characteristics in a manner to associate the customer-selected evaluation: (a) as being received from the customer and as relating to the first article of footwear and (b) as relating to the first specific iteration of the customization cycle; and
wherein the computing system further stores information relating to the second article of footwear in a manner to associate the second article of footwear: (a) with the customer and (b) with a second specific iteration of the customization cycle associated with the customer.