US Patent Issued to ASICS on Aug. 12 for "Shoe sole and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,026, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Shoe sole and shoe" was invented by Hiroki Nakamura (Hyogo, Japan), Keishi Kitamoto (Hyogo, Japan), Yuji Tamakoshi (Hyogo, Japan), Seiji Yano (Hyogo, Japan), Shingo Masumoto (Hyogo, Japan), Shuhei Takemura (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroaki Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan), Naoki Sakajo (Hyogo, Japan), Seigo Nakaya (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazunaga Nakayama (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe sole includes a body portion and a heel holding portion. The heel holding portion is located opposite to a ground contact surface of the body portion and holds a heel portion of a foot ...