Patent 8225427 was granted and assigned to Nike, Inc. on July, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A glove with a base layer of a flexible material which extends along at least a palm-side portion of the glove which includes a palm area and inner sides of a plurality of finger stalls and a thumb stall. The glove also has a continuous second layer positioned on the palm-side portion and disposed on top of the base layer. The continuous second layer includes a plurality of contact areas and a contact surface. Also, the glove has a plurality of siping grooves which conduct liquid away from the contact surface and a plurality of channels which direct liquid away from the contact areas.