US Patent Issued to Under Armour on Nov. 3 for "Method of forming an upper for an article of footwear" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,395, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Under Armour Inc. (Baltimore).

"Method of forming an upper for an article of footwear" was invented by Alan Toronjo (Portland, Ore.), Thomas White (Baltimore) and James Shih-Tien Huang (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper coupled to the sole structure. The upper includes a dynamic textile structure capable of expansion and contraction, the textile structure including a first textile layer, a second textile layer, and a support framework including a plurality of anchor strands possessing stretch and recovery, where each o...