ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,306, issued on July 22, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Woven shoe upper with pockets and fillings" was invented by Benjamin Alexander Thompsett (Nuremberg, Germany), Matthias Etzold (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Quentin Ferrari (Erlangen, Germany), Thomas Pitts (Nuremberg, Germany), Faina Chunhan Liang (Nuremberg, Germany), Adam John Maher (Nuremberg, Germany) and Brieuc Pierre Marie Ferron (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper for a shoe includes a woven element comprising at least one single-layer portion and at least one multi-layer portion, wherein the single-layer portion is formed from a single woven...