US Patent Issued to BOA Technology on July 7 for "Lacing system for ski boots" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,691, issued on July 7, was assigned to BOA Technology Inc. (Denver).

"Lacing system for ski boots" was invented by Alessandro Manzato (Mondsee, Austria), Zachary Hamilton Jensen (Mondsee, Austria) and Isabella Oberhauser (Mondsee, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary ski boot as described herein includes an outer shell, at least one guide member, a tensioning mechanism, and a tension member that is operably coupled with the tensioning mechanism so that an operation of the tensioning mechanism adjusts a tension of the tension member. The tensioning mechanism and the at least one guide member are coupled with the outer sh...