ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,984, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Amplifi Tech (Xiamen) Ltd. (Xiamen, China).
"Shoe" was invented by Yu-Chia Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsuan-Jen Yao (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a shoe comprising: a bottom part; a plurality of first connecting parts; a covering part; a plurality of second connecting parts; and a flexible fastener, in which the covering part extends from a position adjacent to the upper edge of the bottom part toward an interior of the shoe to form an extension part, while the covering part can also extend upward from the position adjacent to the upper edge of...