US Patent Issued to ASHIRASE on May 20 for "Guidance support device, guidance support system, and footwear" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,006, issued on May 20, was assigned to ASHIRASE INC. (Tokyo).

"Guidance support device, guidance support system, and footwear" was invented by Wataru Chino (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yusuke Tanaka (Tokyo), Ryohei Tokuda (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Aya Yamahata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a guidance support device to be used by being inserted into footwear, a plurality of vibration generating members generate vibrations at a plurality of positions on a foot of a user who uses the guidance support device. A position acquisition part acquires a current position. A route acquisition part acquires a route from the current position to a...