US Patent Issued to KEEN on July 14 for "Footwear article with wear guard" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,912, issued on July 14, was assigned to KEEN INC. (Portland, Ore.).

"Footwear article with wear guard" was invented by Rory W. Fuerst (Atherton, Calif.), Rory Fuerst Jr. (Tahoe City, Calif.) and Gregory Musachia (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A footwear article is provided comprising a wear guard coupled to a lining of the footwear article. In at least one example, the wear guard may include bellows. The wear guard may be coupled to the footwear article via one or more of stitching and an injected connection."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2024, under Application No. 18/651,538.

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