US Patent Issued to OAC FINLAND on Dec. 23 for "Ski or snowshoe binding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,596, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to OAC FINLAND OY (Kangasala, Finland).

"Ski or snowshoe binding" was invented by Henri Arjanne (Tampere, Finland), Miika Vuorio (Kaivanto, Finland) and Antti-Jussi Tiitola (Kaivanto, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed solution relates to a ski or snowshoe binding, to which binding a normal boot is attachable with general attachments which are part of said binding, such as with a strap in a front part of the binding and with a strap arrangement in a back part of the binding. The strap of the front part of the binding is transverse to the binding, adjustable in length and extends i...