ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,615, issued on June 9, was assigned to COLE HAAN LLC (Greenland, N.H.).

"Shoe with multiple material sole" was invented by Jeffrey Mokos (Greenland, N.H.), Scott Patt (Greenland, N.H.), Kyle Jenkins (Greenland, N.H.), Mattias Verfl (Greenland, N.H.), Michael Weyrauch (Greenland, N.H.) and Jose A. Tejada Bernard (Greenland, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe having a sole. The sole includes a midsole including multiple midsole portions. A first midsole portion is an inner portion of a first midsole material. A second, midsole portion of a second midsole material circumscribes the first midsole portion, and a third midsole porti...