US Patent Issued to ASICS on March 24 for "Sole and shoe including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,194, issued on March 24, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Sole and shoe including the same" was invented by Yoshinori Tateishi (Kobe, Japan) and Toshiki Aiba (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole includes a midsole and an outsole. A portion of a rearfoot portion including a heel center includes a facing region in which the midsole and the outsole face each other at a distance from each other in an up-down direction, and the facing region includes a shock absorber. The midsole is a foam material. The shock absorber is a solid viscoelastic body and disposed to overlap or surround the heel center. A medial foot-...