ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,890, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honeywell Safety Products USA Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Haptic system for footwear article" was invented by Juraj Suska (Brno, Czech Republic) and Dimitris Plessas (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to a haptic system for promoting identification of an alignment of a pair of footwear articles relative to at least one foot of a user, the haptic system comprising: a pair of footwear articles comprising a first footwear article and a second footwear article structured to be worn on a first foot and a second foot, respectively, of a user, one or more o...