ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,602, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Additively manufactured footwear soles" was invented by Christian Manuel Arias Delgado (Portland, Ore.), Berin B (Portland, Ore.), Ladan Salari-Sharif (Camas, Wash.), Keith A. Blume (Portland, Ore.) and Stephen P. Dobson (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles of footwear comprising an additively manufactured sole. In some embodiments, the article of footwear may comprise a sole, an upper, and a joining element coupling the sole to the upper. In some embodiments, the sole may comprise a three-dimensional mesh with a ground-facing portion a...