US Patent Issued to ASICS on Oct. 20 for "Shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,642, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Shoe" was invented by Azumi Taoka (Kobe, Japan), Sho Takamasu (Kobe, Japan), Koji Otobe (Kobe, Japan), Tomoichiro Ozaki (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroki Uzawa (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe includes a sole and an upper. The upper includes: a topline portion; a slit portion; a peripheral edge portion; and a forefoot portion covering portion. The forefoot portion covering portion includes: an inner functional portion; and an outer functional portion. The inner functional portion has: a plurality of inner high rigidity portions; and a plurality of inner low ...