US Patent Issued to ASICS on Dec. 2 for "Upper and shoe including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,665, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Upper and shoe including the same" was invented by Chihaya Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan), Fumitaka Kamifukumoto (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuki Ohkoshi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper includes an upper main body covering an instep of a foot. The upper main body is formed with a partial region that is a region away from an outer edge of the upper main body, and a passage formed in a tubular shape that extends from the partial region toward the outer edge and then extends so as to return to the partial region and allows a shoelace to pass through. An opening ext...