US Patent Issued to adidas on Aug. 18 for "Articles of footwear with uppers comprising a wound component and methods of making the same" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,178, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Articles of footwear with uppers comprising a wound component and methods of making the same" was invented by Fionn Jonathan Corcoran-Tadd (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin William Kleiman (Portland, Ore.), Ian James Hennebery (Portland, Ore.), Keith Paul Thompson (Ely, Great Britain), Peter David Cauwood (Cambridge, Great Britain), Peter Georg Laitenberger (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sam Jackson Conklin (Portland, Ore.) and Luke Alexander Lowrey (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles of footwear and methods of making articles of footwear incl...