US Patent Issued to ASICS on May 19 for "Sock liner designing apparatus, sock liner designing method and recording medium for recording program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,914, issued on May 19, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Sock liner designing apparatus, sock liner designing method and recording medium for recording program" was invented by Ryota Sakiyama (Kobe, Japan), Genki Hatano (Kobe, Japan), Shingo Takashima (Kobe, Japan), Toshiaki Okamoto (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kusumi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sock liner designing apparatus, a sock liner designing method and a recording medium for a recording program are provided that are used to design sock liners that enable functions of footwear desired by a user to be attained when the user wears the footwear. A sock li...