US Patent Issued to PUMA on July 15 for "Glove" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,901, issued on July 15, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Glove" was invented by Alexander Boehme (Nuremberg, Germany), Thomas Schwarz (Winkelhaid, Germany), Harald Barani (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Christopher Hable (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A goalkeeper's glove for a goalkeeper includes a base knit and a plurality of finger stalls. Two or more of the finger stalls can include a compression knit area configured to be located circumjacent a proximal interphalangeal joint of fingers of a wearer. A wrist collar with a compression knit area can be configured to be located circumjacent the rad...