US Patent Issued to ECCO Sko on Feb. 18 for "System for manufacturing mold-based equipment for direct injection production of footwear and a method for manufacturing footwear" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,972, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ECCO Sko A/S (Bredebro, Denmark).

"System for manufacturing mold-based equipment for direct injection production of footwear and a method for manufacturing footwear" was invented by Jakob Moller Hansen (Bredebro, Denmark) and Jens Sonne Mortensen (Bredebro, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of manufacturing equipment including molds for a direct injection production of footwear. The system includes a design facility that provides a design. A mold manufacturing facility manufactures a mold for the design for molding a sole of the footwear. A last manufacturing facility manufactures...