US Patent Issued to adidas on May 6 for "Shoe or apparel with additive manufactured element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,133, issued on May 6, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Shoe or apparel with additive manufactured element" was invented by Stephen John Russell (Nuremberg, Germany) and Jessica Dorothy Janine Hymas (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe or apparel, including a first material layer with a first plurality of protrusions, a flexible layer with a plurality of apertures, and a second material layer. The flexible layer is positioned between the first material layer and the second material layer. Each protrusion of the first plurality of protrusions of the first material layer extends through at least...