ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,326, issued on April 15, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Shoe" was invented by Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe includes an upper body, a shoe tongue, and a shoelace. The shoe tongue includes a cover portion that covers a central opening of the upper body and a first extending portion-extending from the cover portion along an inner surface of a first wall portion of the upper body. The first extending portion is made of a material higher in stretchability than a material forming the first wall portion. A top end portion of the first wall portion is provided with an upper body-side first shoe...