Patent 11877605 was granted and assigned to Nike, Inc. on January, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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.