US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on May 27 for "Layered product with functional membrane, footwear comprising such layered product, and manufacturing method" (German, Slovene, Slovenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,453, issued on May 27, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH (Putzbrunn, Germany).

"Layered product with functional membrane, footwear comprising such layered product, and manufacturing method" was invented by Gunter Kiederle (Oberpframmern, Germany), Stane Nabernik (Kranj, Slovenia) and Maximilan Muth (Unterhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered product (1) comprises a waterproof and water vapor permeable membrane (4) having a first side (41) and a second side (42), the membrane comprising a membrane material (40, 40a, 40b) which is waterproof and water vapor permeable, and thermoplastic material (3) which ...