ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,246, issued on March 3, was assigned to LEGO STONE Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Shoe having resilient heel" was invented by Chung-Hao Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe includes a sole unit, an upper unit, a sockliner unit, a heel counter and an adhesive layer. The sole unit includes a sole heel sidewall. The upper unit has an access opening edge and an upper heel portion that abuts against the sole heel sidewall. The sockliner unit has a sockliner heel portion that corresponds to the upper heel portion. The heel counter is resiliently deformable and includes a resilient heel plate. The resilient heel plat...