ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,030, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MILLET INNOVATION (Loriol sur Drome, France).
"Device for protecting the plantar padding" was invented by Hugo Laurent (Montelimar, France), Thierry Fontaine (Marsanne, France), Maria-Luisa Trepier-Le Beller (Portes les Valence, France) and Oceane Martin (Loriol sur Drome, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for protecting a plantar pad of a foot, including: a pad including a viscoelastic material, configured to be held on the skin of the plantar region, and to cover all the metatarsal heads and metatarsophalangeal joints of the foot, and an elastic strap attached to lateral edges of...