US Patent Issued to ASICS on Sept. 8 for "Shoe fit evaluation device and shoe fit evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,648, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Shoe fit evaluation device and shoe fit evaluation method" was invented by Mai Nakaya (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroyuki Kusumi (Hyogo, Japan) and Masayuki Tsutsui (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a shoe fit evaluation system, a dimensional difference calculator calculates a part dimensional difference, which is a difference between a measurement value of a foot part dimension and a last part dimension corresponding to the foot part, by performing a certain adjustment for the part. An evaluation processor calculates a last matching rate based on the part dimens...