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Derek Andrew Luther

Jacques Magloire Perrault

Berin Skye B

Marco Florian Kormann

Kevin Murphy

Zachary Clinton Coonrod

Nick Martushev

Frances Huang

Jeremy Determan

Aric Armon

Andrew Jacob Schneider

Christian Siegl

Florian Josel Fick

Pradeepan Indrakumar

Yuehong Tu

Felix Braun

Dustin Kendrick

Brendan Epley

Christian Manuel Arias Delgado

Ladan Salari-Sharif

Jochen Bjoern Suessmuth

Iain Martin Hannah

Mark Henderson

Keith Alexander Blume

Zachary C Coonrod

Mario Poerner

Aric Rishard Armon

Jeremy James Determan

Kevin Alan Murphy

Nikit Martushev

Li-Chun Huang

Ladan Salari

Jochen Björn Suessmuth

Mark Andrew Henderson

Christian Arias Delgado

Skye B Berin

Jacques Perault

A sole board for an article of footwear includes a plate that has a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region. The sole board includes a channel disposed in a top surface of the plate in the forefoot region. The channel extends from a lateral edge of the plate to a medial edge of the plate. A characteristic of the channel at the lateral and medial edges of the plate is different than the characteristic of the channel at a middle of the channel.

Sole board

A midsole for an article of footwear including a three-dimensional mesh including interconnected unit cells and methods of making the same. The interconnected unit cells each include a plurality of struts defining a three-dimensional shape. The interconnected unit cells are connected at nodes having a valence number defined by the number of struts connected at that node. The valence number of the nodes may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The plurality of interconnected unit cells may be organized in a warped cubic lattice structure. The warped cubic lattice structure and the size/shape of interconnected unit cells may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The three-dimensional mesh may be customized based on a biometric data profile for an individual, or group of individuals. The midsole may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process.

Footwear midsole with warped lattice structure and method of making the same

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.

Footwear and footwear components having a mesh component

Described are methods of estimating a physical property associated with a region of a sports article. The method includes determining a plurality of structural features within the region, determining, for each structural feature, a feature value, mapping each feature value to a physical property, wherein the mapping is based on a machine learning algorithm from a limited plurality of samples, and wherein each sample associates a feature value with a value of the physical property, and using the mapping to estimate the physical property for the region.

Volume based prediction of physical properties in sports articles

A midsole for an article of footwear including a three dimensional mesh including interconnected unit cells and methods of making the same. The interconnected unit cells each include a plurality of struts defining a three dimensional shape. The interconnected unit cells are connected at nodes having a valence number defined by the number of struts connected at that node. The valence number of the nodes may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The plurality of interconnected unit cells may be organized in a warped cubic lattice structure. The warped cubic lattice structure and the size/shape of interconnected unit cells may vary to provide customized characteristics to zones or portions of the midsole. The three dimensional mesh may be customized based on a biometric data profile for an individual, or group of individuals. The midsole may be manufactured using an additive manufacturing process.

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