US Patent Issued to adidas on Sept. 22 for "Footwear midsole with anisotropic mesh and methods of making the same" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,616, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Footwear midsole with anisotropic mesh and methods of making the same" was invented by Blayne Hettinga (Portland, Ore.), Shannon Pomeroy (Portland, Ore.), Iain Martin Hannah (Nuremberg, Germany), Ladan Salari-Sharif (Portland, Ore.), Dustin Kendrick (San Francisco), Jacques M. Perrault (Portland, Ore.) and Andrew Schneider (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Soles for articles of footwear including a mechanically anisotropic three-dimensional mesh. The mechanically anisotropic three-dimensional mesh can include one or more mechanically anisotro...