US Patent Issued to VH Footwear ULC. on July 28 for "Additive manufactured tongue for skate boot" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,638, issued on July 28, was assigned to VH Footwear ULC. (Calgary, Canada).

"Additive manufactured tongue for skate boot" was invented by Scott Van Horne (Winnipeg, Canada), Tyler Anthony Williamson Derraugh (Winnipeg, Canada) and Anthony Salahor (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skate tongue for a skate boot is formed by additive manufacturing. The tongue has a body comprising a lattice structure having a plurality of different lattice configurations so as to collectively occupy a majority of an internal volume of the tongue body. Different regions within the tongue body may have lattice configurations that differ f...