US Patent Issued to adidas on June 9 for "Sole structure and shoe" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,613, issued on June 9, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Sole structure and shoe" was invented by Federico Maccapani (Portland, Ore.), Arnau Sanjuan Roman (Portland, Ore.) and Eric Weiss (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure for a shoe and a method of manufacturing the sole structure with additive manufacturing is provided. A midsole structure is integrally formed with a midsole shell having an upper platform and lower platform integrally formed to define a cavity therebetween. A plurality of cushion elements is retained in the cavity. Each of the plurality of cushion elements is movable i...