US Patent Issued to ASICS on July 28 for "Body condition estimation system and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,812, issued on July 28, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Body condition estimation system and shoe" was invented by Ken Kusano (Kobe, Japan) and Takashi Inomata (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body state estimation system includes a sensor module that detects an inclination around a certain axis of a shoe, and an estimation unit that estimates an inclination state of the body of a wearer of the shoe based on a detection result from the sensor module. The estimation unit estimates, for example, a heel valgus angle, an ankle dorsiflexion angle, and a knee flexion angle of the wearer, using a regression model."...