ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. D1,091,084, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Shoe" was invented by Oddbjorn Stavseng (Furth, Germany), Konstantin Baumann (Graben-Neudorf, Germany), Denis Hohmann (Nuremberg, Germany), Nicholas Galway (Schwaig, Germany), Adrien Noirhomme (Nuremberg, Germany), Andreas Schneider (Nuremberg, Germany), Florian Fick (Nuremberg, Germany), Faina Chunhan Liang (Nuremberg, Germany) and Jochen Backhaus (Langenfeld, Germany).

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2025, under Application No. D/990,066.

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