ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,709, issued on March 17, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Article comprising a knit element" was invented by Florian Poegl (Fuerth, Germany), Wolfgang R. Rempp (Gammertingen, Germany), Roland Jenter (Balingen-Endingen, Germany), Matthias Linz (Scheinfeld, Germany), Florin Filipescu (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Stefan Tamm (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customized, flat-knit multi-zonal element for a shoe upper and a method of producing such an element that allows for continuous knitting while controlling positioning of individual threads. One or more carriages may move continuously al...