MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617098161 A) filed by Zellerfeld R&d Gmbh on August 13, 2026, for Method Of 3d Printing A Shoe Part And Resulting Shoe Part.

Inventors include Schmitt, Cornelius; Brkic, Antun Lovro; Krger, Ole; and Schmann, Marc Patrick Number.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: The invention relates to 3D printing of a shoe part (100) with a plurality of different printing layers (10), wherein said shoe part is made by additive layer-by-layer printing. Each printing layer (10) defines an outer section (11) of the shoe part, an inner section (12) of the shoe part and an intermediate section (13) which connects the outer section (11) and the inner section (12) by an infill structure (30), wherein and said infill structure (30) comprising infill connecting lines (31) and/or infill connecting structures (32). According to the novel approach of the present invention, no predetermined standard infill structures are used but rather the orientations of the infill connecting lines (31) and/or the infill connecting structures (32) are determined based on the outer section (11) of the part of the individual shoe.

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