US Patent Issued to adidas on July 29 for "Outsole for a shoe" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,683, issued on July 29, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Outsole for a shoe" was invented by Benjamin Alexander Thompsett (Nuremberg, Germany), Arnau Sanjuan Roman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Harry Miles (Nuremberg, Germany), Baptiste Jacques Dany Tarenne (Fuerth, Germany), Strahinja Spasic (Los Angeles), Daniel Ruiz (Erlangen, Germany), Tobias Biegel (GroBhabersdorf, Germany), Robert Stinchcomb (Chestertown, N.Y.), Stefan Schneider (Dietenhofen, Germany), Mareike Engel (Seukendorf, Germany) and Hannes Schaefke (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outsole for a shoe including first and second sole segments th...