US Patent Issued to ASICS on April 29 for "Data generating apparatus, shoe last producing system and data generating method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,080, issued on April 29, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Data generating apparatus, shoe last producing system and data generating method" was invented by Genki Hatano (Kobe, Japan), Shingo Takashima (Kobe, Japan), Yuya Kozuka (Kobe, Japan), Satoru Abe (Kobe, Japan) and Kenta Takahama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data generating apparatus generates shoe last data for manufacturing a shoe from measured foot shape data. The data generating apparatus includes: an input unit that receives the foot shape data; a processor that computes the shoe last data from the foot shape data received by the input unit; and ...