US Patent Issued to adidas on Sept. 29 for "Multilayered materials with color changing properties" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,823, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to adidas AG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Multilayered materials with color changing properties" was invented by Tiberiu Iovu (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are articles of wear including with a material with color changing properties. The material includes at least one elastic portion having an unstretched colored appearance and a stretched colored appearance. The material also includes at least one fixed portion having the stretched colored appearance regardless of a magnitude of an external force applied to the at least one fixed portion."

The patent was filed on D...