ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,191, issued on April 14, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Recycling of waste yarns" was invented by Thomas Feix (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Simon Stegmueller (Thu Duc City, Viet Nam), Clemens Dyckmans (Nuremberg, Germany), Korbinian Berner (Nuremberg, Germany), Fionn Corcoran-Tadd (Portland, Ore.) and Benjamin Alexander Thompsett (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of manufacturing a component at least partially from waste yarns. In some embodiments, the waste yarns may be distributed on a surface and bonded to each other on the surface. The component may be least a part of an upper for an ...