US Patent Issued to adidas on June 23 for "Injection-molded footwear and methods of making the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,860, issued on June 23, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Injection-molded footwear and methods of making the same" was invented by Marco Fischhold (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Eric Jeandin (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Harald Geyer (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Ulisse Tanzini (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Goussev Stanislav (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Andrew Leslie (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Matthias Linz (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Sergius Merker (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Injection-molded footwear made by an injection molding method. The method can comprise: providing an upper; providing a mol...