Wolverine World Wide, Inc.

Wolverine Outdoors, Inc.

Wolveirne World Wide, Inc.

Mary L Schoenborn

Grant A Urie

Tuan Nguyen Le

Jon R Munns

Andrea Rinaldi

Martin W F Dean

Julie St-Louis

Defne Yalkut

Donald R Reardon

Chris J Loveder

Amanda Marie Hargraves

Clark A Matis

Trond Sonnergren

Raymond M Fredericksen

Matthew P Cushman

Jie Xu

Thomas N A Evans

A footwear configured to attenuate shock and provide rebound is provided, including an outsole having independent compression pods separated from an outer support perimeter by a peripheral groove and from one another by multiple transverse grooves that are deeper than the peripheral groove. The pods can extend from a medial side to a lateral side, across a majority of an outsole width. The pods can compress individually and forwardly as the footwear engages the ground, and can rebound, providing energy return. The pods can independently compress medially and/or laterally to provide enhanced side to side flexibility of the outsole and attendant cushioning. The transverse grooves can be deeper than the thickness of the lower walls of the pods so that those lower walls can compress deeply upward and into the outsole to provide shock attenuation. A cushion unit can be adjacent those surfaces and can further provide rebound.

Cushioning system for footwear

Footwear sole

Footwear upper

Growing community of inventors

Rockford, MI, United States of America

Mary L Schoenborn