US Patent Issued to adidas on Nov. 25 for "Shoe and shoe upper with optimized shape-holding properties" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,138, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Shoe and shoe upper with optimized shape-holding properties" was invented by Florian Poegl (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Florian Godenberg (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany) and Matthias Linz (Scheinfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper for a shoe includes a first tubular textile layer and a second tubular textile layer. The first tubular textile layer is at least partially surrounded by the second tubular textile layer thus forming an internal textile layer and an external textile layer. The first tubular textile layer includes a first zone. The...