Patents Assigned to Adidas AG
  • Portable fitness monitoring methods
    Patent number: 11376468
    Abstract: Portable fitness monitoring methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, a portable fitness monitoring method includes a method for providing audible output to a user during an athletic activity using a portable fitness monitoring device. The method includes the steps of receiving an audio feedback file package that includes a first audio feedback file, updating the audio feedback file package, and processing the updated audio feedback file package to provide audible output to the user through an audio output device during the athletic activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christian DiBenedetto, Mark Arthur Oleson, Ian Michael Munson
  • Color changing materials arranged in slow particle coloration materials
    Patent number: 11372231
    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: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: ADIDAS AG
    Inventor: Michel Reginald Pierre Joseph Lussier
  • Ventilation element
    Patent number: 11350684
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Louis Samuel Beck, Stefan Schenk
  • Shoe with adaptive heel element
    Patent number: 11350700
    Abstract: 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. A heel counter is arranged in the heel portion, wherein the heel counter comprises a lateral portion and a medial portion for supporting the heel of a wearer's foot and a posterior gap therebetween wherein the posterior gap forms an essentially vertical split portion, wherein the split portion is adapted such that the adaptive heel element can move and deform within the split portion, and wherein the adaptive heel element within the split portion is adapted to contour to the anatomical shape of the heel of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Paul Leonard Michael Smith, Stuart David Reinhardt, Angus Wardlaw, Jan Hill, James Tarrier, Falk Bruns, Andreas Thieret, Oliver Wendel, Maximilian Grüttner, Bernhard Schuster
  • Laceless shoe
    Patent number: 11350701
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ADIDAS AG
    Inventors: Fu Wen Lee, LuLu Chen, Sam Forester
  • Optimized sports article
    Patent number: 11351422
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: 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
  • Garment
    Patent number: 11337471
    Abstract: 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).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: ADIDAS AG
    Inventors: Peter Andreas Schwirtz, Conroy James Nachtigall
  • Three-dimensional shoe manufacturing
    Patent number: 11330870
    Abstract: Described are methods for the manufacture of a shoe, an apparatus to perform such method, as well as a shoe manufactured by such method. According to certain examples, the method for the manufacture of a shoe includes providing a three-dimensionally pre-shaped first shoe component and processing the three-dimensionally pre-shaped first shoe component, wherein the processing includes an individually controllable succession of processing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Gerd Rainer Manz, Jan Hill, Brian Hoying, Angus Wardlaw, Marco Kormann, Christian Lott
  • Three-dimensionally thermo-molded footwear
    Patent number: 11324282
    Abstract: Articles of footwear including a thermo-molded upper having a skin composed of one or more low melting point thermoplastic polymers. The skin may include at least one of: a base layer composed of a low melting point thermoplastic polymer and a grid layer including a yarn composed of a low melting point thermoplastic polymer. The uppers may be formed by placing a skin and an inflatable bladder into a mold cavity and heating the mold to a predetermined temperature. The inflatable bladder may be inflated such that the skin is pressed against an interior surface of the heated mold cavity to cause the skin to take on the shape of the internal surface of the mold cavity, thereby forming an upper for an article of footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: 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
  • Article of footwear with upper having stitched polymer thread pattern and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11326290
    Abstract: 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. The polymer threads may include a core composed of a first material and a coating composed of a second material, where the melting point of the first material is higher than the melting point of the second material. The polymer threads may be bonded to the base layer by the coating of the polymer threads. The polymer threads may include one or more polymer thread sets stitched in pattern(s) on area(s) of an outer surface of the base layer to provide targeted characteristics to area(s) on the upper. In some embodiments, the polymer threads may be bonded to the base layer with heat and/or pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Jason Daniel McGinnity, Janette P. Atkins, Elise Marie Hall, Carl Arnese
  • LACING LOCKDOWN SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220132996
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lacing system for tightening a shoe upper, comprising: at least one strap, and a first and a second guiding element for coupling the strap to the shoe upper, wherein a first end of the strap is attached to a tongue portion of the shoe upper and a second end of the strap is configured to receive a portion of a shoelace, and wherein the first guiding element is arranged in a throat area of the shoe upper and the second guiding element is arranged in a sole area of the shoe upper opposite to the throat area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: adidas AG
    Inventors: Rohan ABEL, Ninh An NGUYEN
  • Systems and techniques for computer-enabled geo-targeted product reservation for secure and authenticated online reservations
    Patent number: 11321751
    Abstract: 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. For example, a computing device registered with a server system receives inputs for requesting a reservation of a limited release product and for configuring the product. To authenticate the computing device, the server device transmits an electronic message to the computing device requesting the computing device to respond. A response to the message is one threshold authentication condition for generating the reservation. Upon determining that one or more threshold authentication conditions are satisfied, the server device generates a reservation for the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Gordon Gibson Lanpher, Roger Brandon Beaty, Jonathan Matthew Shaw, Katharine Reinhold, Ryan Robert O. Malia, Megan Murphy Millard, Simon Atkins, Todd Ames
  • 3-D printed master model
    Patent number: 11298854
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns a master model for the production of a mold, comprising: (a) a first part, a second part comprising a textured surface; wherein the first part and the second part are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Joerg Knappworst, Tay Tsyr Chun
  • Laceless shoe
    Patent number: 11297902
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Fu Wen Lee, LuLu Chen, Sam Forester
  • Sports shoe and method for the manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 11291268
    Abstract: A shoe, in particular a running shoe, may include an upper and a sole unit. The upper is attached to the sole unit such that in a midfoot region there is a gap between a lower side of the upper and a top side of the sole unit. The gap may extend from a lateral side of the shoe to a medial side of the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Angus Wardlaw, Zachary Clinton Coonrod, James Tarrier, Heiko Schlarb, Paul Leonard Michael Smith, Warren Freeman
  • Footwear
    Patent number: D951605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventor: Vincent Etcheverry
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D955703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Ulisse Tanzini, Sam Handy, Moritz Hoellmueller, Herisson Redi Ferreira, Muriel Vanessa Jung
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D956398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Arnau Sanjuan Roman, Anthony Mazoyer, Maurice Taylor
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D956399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Arnau Sanjuan Roman, Anthony Mazoyer, Maurice Taylor, Markus Klaus Scharnagl
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D956400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Arnau Sanjuan Roman, Anthony Mazoyer, Maurice Taylor, Markus Klaus Scharnagl