US Patent Issued to adidas on Oct. 14 for "Outsole for a shoe" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,002, issued on Oct. 14, 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), Hannes Schaefke (Fuerth, Germany) and Jurgen Weidl (Aurachtal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outsole for a shoe includin...