US Patent Issued to PUMA on March 17 for "Method of manufacturing a tunable midsole for an article of footwear" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,608, issued on March 17, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method of manufacturing a tunable midsole for an article of footwear" was invented by Matthias Hartmann (Forchheim, Germany) and Reinhold Sussmann (Scheinfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a midsole includes selecting a plurality of yarns. At least two yarns of the plurality of yarns have different properties relative to one another. The method further includes bundling the plurality of yarns to form a bundled yarn structure and intertwining the bundled yarn structure to form a twisted yarn structure. Further, the method include...