ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,145, issued on May 6, was assigned to APOS MEDICAL ASSETS LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Modular footwear protuberance assembly" was invented by Amit Mor (Rehovot, Israel), Avi Elbaz (Dimona, Israel) and Oren Livne (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A footwear device comprising: a sole assembly comprising at least one connective element; at least one protuberance assembly comprising a base and a cap, said base and cap configured to rotatively align; a locking fixture configured to lock and unlock said alignment of said base and cap; and a fastening fixture configured to fasten said base to said track in a selected position i...