US Patent Issued to PUMA on July 22 for "Article of footwear having a display system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,307, issued on July 22, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Article of footwear having a display system" was invented by Markus Bock (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Reinhold Sussmann (Scheinfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system for an article of footwear includes a display device with an optoelectronic display, a control module that is configured to communicate with the display device, and a power source. The display system has a visual characteristic that is configured to correspond with a gait cycle of a user wearing the article of footwear."

The patent was filed on July 27, 2023, under Applic...