US Patent Issued to ASICS on May 26 for "Upper and shoe" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,791, issued on May 26, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Japan).

"Upper and shoe" was invented by Chihaya Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper for a shoe includes a knitted fabric including a first region including a continuous series of stitches with a yarn having a thickness of 0.1 mm or more, in which 4.0greater thannRgreater than12.7 is satisfied in the first region, where n is the number of stitches per inch along at least one direction, and R is the thickness of the yarn."

The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/377,106.

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