US Patent Issued to ASICS on May 5 for "Shoe sole and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,276, issued on May 5, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Shoe sole and shoe" was invented by Tatsuya Ishikawa (Kobe, Japan), Koji Otobe (Kobe, Japan), Akane Yoneda (Kobe, Japan), Tomoichiro Ozaki (Kobe, Japan), Hiroyuki Ichikawa (Kobe, Japan) and Takahiro Matsuura (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe sole includes a sole body, and a reinforcing structure portion made up of a first reinforcing member and a second reinforcing member that are made of different members of different materials from each other. The first reinforcing member includes a first bar, and the second reinforcing member includes a second bar. Th...