ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,494, issued on April 14, was assigned to ROXILLA LLC (New York).
"Force redistribution hindfoot shoe insert" was invented by Rock G. Positano (New York), Danielle Evin Gerber (New York), Robert White (Bloomingdale, N.J.) and Rock CJay Positano (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shoe insert devices that absorb shock and that redistribute forces within a user's foot and/or knee during use. The shoe insert devices include a hindfoot insert portion configured to be positioned within a shoe and extend beneath a hindfoot portion of a sole of a foot of the user with a top side of the hindfoot insert portion facing the sole. The hindf...