US Patent Issued to PUMA on June 30 for "Article of footwear having a twist fastener" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,167, issued on June 30, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Article of footwear having a twist fastener" was invented by Reinhold Sussmann (Scheinfeld, Germany) and Andreas Siegismund (Rueckersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear has an upper and a fastener. The upper is attached to a sole structure. The fastener includes a handle disposed within a first cavity formed at a heel end of the sole structure. The handle is operably coupled to a cable that extends along the sole structure from a heel region to a midfoot region of the footwear. When the handle is rotated, the article of footwea...