ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,994, issued on May 20, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Outsole pattern for an article of footwear" was invented by Arnaud Redon (Nuremberg, Germany) and Christopher Dunning (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outsole includes a set of ridges concentrically aligned around and emanating outwardly from a first epicenter. Each of the ridges have an undulating height there along. A portion of the set of ridges is aligned to define a flex zone. The flex zone is configured to accommodate flexion of the outsole there along."
The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/505,674.
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