Patent 10568381 was granted and assigned to Nike, Inc. on February, 2020 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An article of footwear includes a motorized tensioning system, sensors, and a gesture control system. Based on information received from one or more sensors the gesture control system may detect a prompting gesture and enters an armed mode for receiving further instructions. In the armed mode the system may detect a variety of different control gestures that correspond to different tensioning commands.