US Patent Issued to adidas on Oct. 20 for "Sports shoes and methods for manufacturing and recycling of sports shoes" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,628, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Sports shoes and methods for manufacturing and recycling of sports shoes" was invented by Marco Kormann (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Christopher Edward Holmes (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Brian Hoying (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Adam Martin Brundage (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sports shoe includes an upper wherein a majority by weight of the upper is made from a thermoplastic base material and a sole wherein a majority by weight of the sole is made from the same thermoplastic base material. The sole and the upper are individually fabricat...