US Patent Issued to PUMA on Oct. 20 for "Articles of footwear with support structures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,635, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Articles of footwear with support structures" was invented by Jerry C Ni (Marlborough, Mass.), Robert S Michalski (Milton, Mass.) and Thomas Le (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear includes an upper coupled with a sole structure that defines a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region. The sole structure includes an upper midsole cushioning member, a lower midsole cushioning member, an outsole coupled to a bottom surface of the lower midsole cushioning member, and a plate positioned between the upper midsole cush...