US Patent Issued to ASICS on Sept. 8 for "Sole and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,642, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Sole and shoe" was invented by Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Nishimura (Kobe, Japan), Yasuo Umetani (Kobe, Japan), Masanori Sakaguchi (Kobe, Japan) and Hiromichi Otake (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole includes a midsole, and the midsole includes a toe support portion, a midfoot support portion, and an intervening portion. The sole includes a toe contact surface and a midfoot contact surface. The intervening portion has a recessed portion having a shape recessed from an imaginary curved surface toward a side of a wearer's foot. A length between...