Patents Assigned to Adidas AG
  • Patent number: 12778224
    Abstract: Articles of apparel comprising an outer skin, an inner skin, and a core disposed between the outer skin. The outer skin, the inner skin, and the core can be integrally formed. Features of the outer skin, inner skin, and/or core can be manufactured to provide desired properties for the article of apparel, for example cushioning properties, force redirecting properties, air flow properties, and gripping properties. In some embodiments, the article of apparel comprises a glove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christian Manuel Arias Delgado, Fionn Corcoran-Tadd, Matteo E. Padovani
  • Patent number: 12765632
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sole for a shoe, in particular for a sports shoe such as a running shoe, comprising (a) a midsole, and (b) at least one ground-contacting support element comprising a foam material and being distinct from the midsole, (c) wherein the foam material of the at least one ground-contacting support element is stiffer than a midsole material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Melanie Astudillo, Ulisse Tanzini, Thomas Pitts, Pauline Streissel, Erin Bendig, John Thomas Newcomb
  • Patent number: 12765645
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a shoe, in particular a sports shoe, comprising the steps of providing a plurality of individual particles for a sole element in a mold, providing an upper in the mold, and fusing the plurality of individual particles and the upper by means of an electromagnetic field to bond the plurality of individual particles with each other and with the upper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christoph Dyckmans, Andreas J. Seefried, Bastian Gothe, Maximilian Drexler, Amir Fathi, Tru Le, Chris Holmes
  • Patent number: 12765638
    Abstract: An article of footwear may include a sole and an upper connected to the sole. The sole may include a first solid component and a second solid component. The sole may further include an additively manufactured mesh component that is arranged between the first solid component and the second solid component. The mesh component may be connected to each of the first solid component and the second solid component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Zachary C. Coonrod, Berin Skye B, Keith A. Blume, Derek Andrew Luther, Ladan Salari-Sharif, Iain Martin Hannah, Jacques M. Perrault, Christian Manuel Arias Delgado, Dustin Kendrick
  • Patent number: 12766365
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods can be used including receiving motion data including comparing time-stamped speed data with predetermined cycling speed ranges, categorizing the speed data into portions of a minute that indicate each of the predetermined cycling speed ranges, determining portions of a minute indicate a cycling activity has begun, determining portions of a later minute indicate a cycling activity has paused or ended, confirming a minimum time inactive indicating that a cycling activity has ended, and determining that a minimum time active has elapsed between the indication a cycling activity has begun and indication a cycling activity has ended such that a cycling activity is categorized as a cycling workout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Alan Lee, Stephen John Black, Jason Iijima
  • Patent number: 12766803
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing cushioning elements for sports apparel are described. A method is provided for manufacturing a cushioning element for sports apparel from randomly arranged particles of an expanded material. The method includes positioning a functional element within a mold and loading the mold with the particles of the expanded material, wherein the loading occurs through at least two openings within the mold and/or wherein the loading occurs between different movable parts of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Angus Wardlaw, Gerd Rainer Manz, Tru Huu Minh Le, Warren Freeman
  • Patent number: 12765628
    Abstract: A sports shoe includes an upper wherein a majority by weight of the upper is made from a thermoplastic base material and a sole wherein a majority by weight of the sole is made from the same thermoplastic base material. The sole and the upper are individually fabricated and joined to each other. The thermoplastic base material includes at least one of the following materials: thermoplastic polyurethane TPU, polyamide PA, polyethylene terephthalate PET, or polybutylene terephthalate PBT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Marco Kormann, Christopher Edward Holmes, Brian Hoying, Adam Martin Brundage
  • Patent number: 12748301
    Abstract: Articles comprises iron oxide colloidal nanocrystals arranged within chains, wherein the chains of nanocrystals are embedded within a material used to form the article or a transfer medium used to transfer a color to the article are described. The material or transfer medium includes elastic properties that allow the nanocrystals to display a temporary color determined by the strength of an external force applied to the article, and the material or transfer medium includes memory properties that cause the displayed temporary color to dissipate when the external force is removed, wherein the dissipation of the displayed temporary color is sufficiently slow as to be visually observable by an average observer's unaided eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventor: Michel Reginald Pierre Joseph Lussier
  • Patent number: 12745823
    Abstract: Described are articles of wear including with a material with color changing properties. The material includes at least one elastic portion having an unstretched colored appearance and a stretched colored appearance. The material also includes at least one fixed portion having the stretched colored appearance regardless of a magnitude of an external force applied to the at least one fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventor: Tiberiu Iovu
  • Patent number: 12740616
    Abstract: Soles for articles of footwear including a mechanically anisotropic three-dimensional mesh. The mechanically anisotropic three-dimensional mesh can include one or more mechanically anisotropic regions with a first lattice shear modulus measured in a first direction and a second lattice shear modulus measured in a second direction opposite to or orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second lattice shear moduli are different to provide the three-dimensional mesh with mechanically anisotropic properties. The mechanically anisotropic three-dimensional mesh can be three-dimensionally printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Blayne Hettinga, Shannon Pomeroy, Iain Martin Hannah, Ladan Salari-Sharif, Dustin Kendrick, Jacques M. Perrault, Andrew Schneider
  • Patent number: 12727647
    Abstract: Shoes, in particular sports shoes, that comprise an upper and a heel element arranged to at least partially overlap with at least a part of the upper. The heel element is configured to envelop at least a part of a heel of a wearer of the shoe and is movable with respect to the upper. The movable arrangement between the heel element and the upper allows the wearer to adjust the fit of the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Stephan Dietrich, Willem Van Beuningen, Criselda Ocuaman Virata, Cori Kristine Marble Steele, David John Yong, Christopher James Polster, Ian James Hennebery, Nicole Jean Demby, Kathryn Ann Farina
  • Patent number: 12727643
    Abstract: A sole for a shoe, in particular for a sports shoe, such as a running shoe, the sole including a midsole and a reinforcing frame, wherein at least a first part of the reinforcing frame substantially surrounds an outer boundary of the midsole in one or more of: a lateral side region, a medial side region, a heel region, and a toe region of the midsole thereby defining an open space such that a part of the midsole is received in the open space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter, Ulisse Matthias Tanzini, Francisca Paredes, Niklas Nester, Peter Valdivia, Melanie Astudillo
  • Patent number: D1145312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Stephen Dobson, Christopher Padilla, James Thompson, Richard Zartman, Remy Eyraud, Moritz Hoellmueller, Motoki Kambara, Lena Groneck
  • Patent number: D1145327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2026
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Andreas Hierl, Jose Munoz
  • Patent number: D1146267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2025
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Motoki Kambara, Saul Maret
  • Patent number: D1146276
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventor: Baptiste Tarenne
  • Patent number: D1150856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: John L. Hoeck, III, Christopher N. Padilla, Stephen P. Dobson, Christian Manuel Arias Delgado, Niccolo Dambrosio
  • Patent number: D1155175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Korbinian Lehner, Falk Bruns, Herisson Redi, Charlotte Heidmann, Jochen Bartl
  • Patent number: D1155988
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventor: Vincent Etcheverry
  • Patent number: D1156549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2026
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christoph Juckelandt, Ullrich Nadrau, Franziska-Maria Eva Löeffelmann, Joe Stothard