US Patent Issued to PUMA on Sept. 2 for "Shoe with foam pods and chassis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,690, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to PUMA SE (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Shoe with foam pods and chassis" was invented by Sidney Fauconnier (Nuremberg, Germany) and Romain Girard (Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear includes a sole structure coupled with an upper that defines a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region. The sole structure includes a plurality of pods that each have a pod body formed from a foam material that optionally has a coating disposed on an outer surface of the pod body. The sole structure includes a chassis attached to a bottom surface of each of th...