US Patent Issued to PUMA on May 26 for "Article of footwear having a closure system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,768, issued on May 26, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Article of footwear having a closure system" was invented by Andreas Siegismund (Rueckersdorf, Germany), Reinhold Sussmann (Scheinfeld, Germany) and Romain Girard (Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure system for an article of footwear includes a reel and a cord that is configured to be operably engaged with an upper of the footwear. A first segment of the cord is attached to the reel, and the reel is configured to be actuated by pulling the first segment of the cord to tighten the footwear."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 202...