ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,823, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Multi-thread automated winding for articles of apparel" was invented by Clemens Paul Dyckmans (Nuremberg, Germany), Thomas Feix (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Simon Stegmueller (Thu Duc City, Viet Nam) and Fionn Corcoran-Tadd (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manufacturing an article of apparel includes a plate with a plurality of projections. The system also includes a winding head with a plurality of adjacent thread guides. The thread guides among the plurality of thread guides are configured to simultaneously dispense respective con...