US Patent Issued to ASICS on Sept. 1 for "Sole and footwear" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,402, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Sole and footwear" was invented by Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan) and Yoshihiro Eguchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole includes an outer sole, a midsole, and a plate. The plate includes a toe section and a midfoot section. The toe section includes a fore edge part having a shape convex-curved forward in a longitudinal direction, a recessed edge part having a shape extending rearward in the longitudinal direction from a lateral end of the fore edge part in a width direction while extending toward a lateral side in the width direction and convex-curved t...