US Patent Issued to PUMA on March 11 for "Systems and methods for manufacturing an article of footwear" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,660, issued on March 11, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Systems and methods for manufacturing an article of footwear" was invented by Reinhold Sussmann (Scheinfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear includes a sleeve formed by a knit material and defining a front distal end and a rear distal end. The sleeve includes an external surface and an internal surface that defines an internal cavity. The article of footwear includes a midsole arranged within the internal cavity, and a framework printed, layer by layer, onto portions of the external surface. The framework includes a plurality o...