ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,171, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FENG TAY ENTERPRISES Co. LTD. (Yunlin County, Taiwan).

"Injection physical foaming inner boot and method of manufacturing inner boot by injection physical foaming" was invented by Tsung-Lin Yang (Yunlin County, Taiwan) and Yu-Ta Chang (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection physical foaming inner boot includes a shaft portion and a foot portion including a forefoot section and a hindfoot section. A hardness of the forefoot section is greater than a hardness of the hindfoot section. The shaft portion extends upwards from the hindfoot section of the foot portion. The ...