US Patent Issued to ASICS on June 23 for "Measurement device for shoe fitting evaluation and method for shoe fitting evaluation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,891, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Measurement device for shoe fitting evaluation and method for shoe fitting evaluation" was invented by Ken Kishimoto (Kobe, Japan), Naoko Matsumoto (Kobe, Japan), Aya Yoshimura (Kobe, Japan) and Kei Kanematsu (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device for shoe fitting evaluation is disclosed. The measurement device for shoe fitting evaluation includes a last insertable into a shoe, a pressure measurement unit configured to measure a wearing pressure on a top surface of a foot of the last, and a gap measurement unit configured to measure a gap be...