US Patent Issued to PUMA on July 7 for "Cork composites for articles of footwear and methods for making thereof" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,450, issued on July 7, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Cork composites for articles of footwear and methods for making thereof" was invented by Patrick Donovan (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a cork composite material is disclosed herein. The method includes providing a plurality of cork particles, adding a binder material to the cork particles to form a mixture of the cork particles and the binder material, transferring the mixture to a mold, applying energy to the mixture, cooling the mixture, and removing the cork composite material from the mold. Further, the energy inclu...