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Method for the manufacture of a shoe sole, shoe sole, and shoe with pre-manufactured TPU article
9 Aug 22
Described are a method for the manufacture of a shoe sole, the sole manufactured by the method, and a shoe including the sole.
Christopher Edward Holmes, Sabrina Kerling, Tru Huu Minh Le
Filed: 23 May 17
Utility
Three-dimensional shoe
9 Aug 22
A knitted upper for an article of footwear.
Rainer Unnewehr, Stefan Tamm, Claudiu-Ionut Popescu
Filed: 30 May 19
Utility
Sensor garment
19 Jul 22
The present invention provides a sensor garment including a harness.
Kim Scheffler, Melanie M. Maslany
Filed: 17 Dec 18
Utility
Fitness activity monitoring systems and methods
12 Jul 22
Apparatus, systems, and methods for tracking the location of an individual during a fitness activity are disclosed.
Jon Harald Werner, Christian Dibenedetto, Stephen John Black, Amy Jones Vaterlaus
Filed: 6 Mar 20
Utility
Engineered braided tube
5 Jul 22
A braided component for an article of apparel or footwear may be formed by application of a method that utilizes a braiding machine to braid a plurality of braiding yarns to form a tubular structure with a plurality of axial yarns incorporated into the tubular structure during braiding.
Tom O'Haire, Andrew Yip
Filed: 22 Jun 18
Utility
Portable fitness monitoring methods
5 Jul 22
Portable fitness monitoring methods are disclosed.
Christian DiBenedetto, Mark Arthur Oleson, Ian Michael Munson
Filed: 29 Jul 19
Utility
Ventilation element
7 Jun 22
The present invention concerns a ventilation element for an article of apparel, footwear, or a sports accessory, including: a first surface, including a foam; a second surface; where the first surface and the second surface are spaced apart, creating a void, so that air may circulate between the first surface and the second surface.
Louis Samuel Beck, Stefan Schenk
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
Shoe with adaptive heel element
7 Jun 22
A shoe, in particular an athletic shoe, comprising a heel portion that includes an adaptive heel element arranged in the heel portion of the shoe, wherein the adaptive heel element comprises a stretch material.
Paul Leonard Michael Smith, Stuart David Reinhardt, Angus Wardlaw, Jan Hill, James Tarrier, Falk Bruns, Andreas Thieret, Oliver Wendel, Maximilian Grüttner, Bernhard Schuster
Filed: 19 Sep 18
Utility
Laceless shoe
7 Jun 22
Described is a shoe upper for a shoe, in particular an athletic shoe, wherein the shoe upper is laceless and comprises: (a.) a lateral portion; (b.) a medial portion; and (c.) at least an elastic intermediate portion between the lateral portion and the medial portion, wherein the stiffness of at least one of the lateral portion and the medial portion is at least 2 times higher than the stiffness of the elastic intermediate portion.
Fu Wen Lee, LuLu Chen, Sam Forester
Filed: 28 Aug 19
Utility
Optimized sports article
7 Jun 22
Embodiments of the invention concerns a method of designing a sports article, including: (a) scanning at least one body part of at least a first person; (b) creating a first digital model of the body part of the first person; (c) creating a digital model of the sports article; (d) digitally arranging the digital model of the sports article on the first digital model of the body part, while allowing the digital model of the sports article to stretch digitally and (e) digitally modifying at least one property of the digital model of the sports article based on the first digital model of the body part and the digital model of the sports article.
Deborah June Yeomans, Iain James Sabberton, Simon Peter Wilsher, Keir Samuel Jackson, Oliver Nathaniel Ambrose Price, Marco Albert Dittrich, Henry Hanson, Alain Walter, Jochen Suessmuth
Filed: 12 Jun 19
Utility
Garment
24 May 22
Described is a garment (10) having an integrated first pocket (55) into which the garment (10) may be packed, when not in use and wherein the first pocket (55) has an opening (180) arranged at the lower end of the garment (10).
Peter Andreas Schwirtz, Conroy James Nachtigall
Filed: 21 Jun 18
Utility
Three-dimensional shoe manufacturing
17 May 22
Described are methods for the manufacture of a shoe, an apparatus to perform such method, as well as a shoe manufactured by such method.
Gerd Rainer Manz, Jan Hill, Brian Hoying, Angus Wardlaw, Marco Kormann, Christian Lott
Filed: 26 Aug 19
Utility
Three-dimensionally thermo-molded footwear
10 May 22
Articles of footwear including a thermo-molded upper having a skin composed of one or more low melting point thermoplastic polymers.
Ronald Daniel Becker, Edward John Musho, Charles Griffin Wilson, III, Robert Leimer, Howard Hunter Barney, Nicholas Allen Groeneweg, Ian James Hennebery, Kelli Amelia George, Alistair Hather, Carl Arnese, Jacques Perrault
Filed: 16 May 16
Utility
Article of footwear with upper having stitched polymer thread pattern and methods of making the same
10 May 22
An upper for an article of footwear, the upper including a base layer defining a least a portion of the upper and polymer threads stitched to the base layer.
Jason Daniel McGinnity, Janette P. Atkins, Elise Marie Hall, Carl Arnese
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Utility
Systems and techniques for computer-enabled geo-targeted product reservation for secure and authenticated online reservations
3 May 22
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a geo-targeted online reservation system that ensures authenticity of customer devices requesting reservations by generating reservations only if threshold authentication conditions are satisfied.
Gordon Gibson Lanpher, Roger Brandon Beaty, Jonathan Matthew Shaw, Katharine Reinhold, Ryan Robert O. Malia, Megan Murphy Millard, Simon Atkins, Todd Ames
Filed: 24 Jun 20
Utility
Method of making three-dimensional objects by additive manufacturing
26 Apr 22
Provided is a method of making a three-dimensional object, which method may include the steps of: (a) producing an intermediate object (21) from a dual cure polymerizable liquid by additive manufacturing, the intermediate object having the shape of the three-dimensional object in warped or distorted form; (b) optionally washing the intermediate object; then (c) contacting the intermediate to a form (22), which form has a shape corresponding to the three-dimensional object, and with the intermediate conformed to the shape of the form; then (d) further curing the intermediate object in contact with the form to produce the three-dimensional object (24) under conditions in which the three-dimensional object retains a shape conformed to the form after separating therefrom; and then (e) separating the three-dimensional object from the form.
Braden Reed Ball, Craig B. Carlson, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Hardik Kabaria, Sean Friedrich Walter McCluskey, R. Griffin Price, Hendric Vogel, Jacques Perrault
Filed: 14 Mar 18
Utility
Sports shoe and method for the manufacture thereof
5 Apr 22
A shoe, in particular a running shoe, may include an upper and a sole unit.
Angus Wardlaw, Zachary Clinton Coonrod, James Tarrier, Heiko Schlarb, Paul Leonard Michael Smith, Warren Freeman
Filed: 7 Apr 16
Utility
Co-molded 3D elements
29 Mar 22
Describes are support elements for a sole of a shoe, in particular a sports shoe, a sole and a shoe with such a support element, as well as a method for the manufacture of a support element.
Stuart David Reinhardt, Paul Leonard Michael Smith, James Tarrier, Robert Leimer, Tru Huu Minh Le, Angus Wardlaw, Warren Freeman, Heiko Schlarb, Christopher Edward Holmes, John Whiteman, Sabrina Kerling
Filed: 29 Apr 20
Utility
Method of manufacturing a fully formed upper
29 Mar 22
Described is a method of manufacturing a component for a shoe that includes the steps: forming a sheet of material; heating the sheet of material; stretching the heated sheet of material by moving a last into the sheet of material, wherein the last defines the shape of the component; and applying a pressure lower than ambient pressure between the stretched sheet of material and the last to conform the sheet of material to the last; or applying a pressure higher than ambient pressure over the stretched sheet of material to conform the sheet of material to the last.
Eric Jeandin, Ulrich Bauer
Filed: 6 Dec 17
Utility
Flat weft-knitted upper for sports shoes
15 Mar 22
Described are uppers for a sports shoe with flat weft-knitted knitwear.
Stefan Tamm
Filed: 19 Sep 19