US Patent Issued to SHIKAHAMA on Sept. 29 for "Sole contact body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,819, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SHIKAHAMA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sole contact body" was invented by Shigeru Shikahama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a sole contact body for footwear such as a shoe, an athletic shoe, or a sandal. The sole contact body comprises a raised part which is configured to contact each of the second, third and fourth toes to lift the metatarsophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joint positions thereof, and which is configured to fit between the first and fifth toes so as not to lift the first and fifth toes throughout the entire lengths thereof. The raised part i...