US Patent Issued to ON CLOUDS on March 3 for "Sole with horizontal and vertical damping function" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,244, issued on March 3, was assigned to ON CLOUDS GMBH (Zurich).

"Sole with horizontal and vertical damping function" was invented by Martin Ruegg (Zurich, Switzerland), Nils Altrogge (Zurich, Switzerland) and Johannes Voelchert (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole for a running shoe having an elastic midsole, the midsole having a plurality of channels extending in the transverse direction of the midsole and arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the midsole, at least some of the channels each including an opening on the lateral side and/or on the medial side in the midsole; a front bound...