US Patent Issued to Red Wing Shoe on Sept. 22 for "Footwear having internal metatarsal guard" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,615, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Red Wing Shoe Co. Inc. (Red Wing, Minn.).

"Footwear having internal metatarsal guard" was invented by Russell Lane Davis (Red Wing, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides footwear with an internal metatarsal guard and a related manufacturing method. In the depicted embodiment, the metatarsal guard is internal in that it is located under the outer layer of the footwear. In the depicted embodiment, the existence of the metatarsal guard can be visually detected from the outside of the footwear being that the metatarsal guard is located in a raised area in vamp of th...