US Patent Issued to ASICS on Aug. 11 for "Shoe with cut in the sole" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,192, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe City, Japan).

"Shoe with cut in the sole" was invented by Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Nishimura (Kobe, Japan), Takayuki Kogure (Kobe, Japan), Yoshikazu Mitsuhata (Kobe, Japan) and Hiromichi Otake (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe includes a sole with a midsole, and an upper portion joined to the sole. The midsole includes a cut having a linear shape, and a depth from a first height position to a second height position in a thickness direction. The cut is configured such that a part of the cut has no contact point with an other part of the cut, and the ...