ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,184, issued on March 4, was assigned to Under Armour Inc (Baltimore).
"Sole structure with bottom-loaded compression" was invented by David Dombrow (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A running shoe includes an upper coupled to a sole structure. The sole structure includes a midsole and an outsole. The outsole wraps around a sole structure such that it contacts the midsole. The outer surface of the outsole includes a series of treads or traction elements extending along the bottom and sides of the outsole. With this configuration, when the sole structure contacts an uneven topography, the outsole conforms around the topography,...