US Patent Issued to ASICS on Dec. 2 for "Shoe component and shoe" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,667, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Shoe component and shoe" was invented by Chihaya Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe component includes a tongue covering an instep of a foot of a wearer, a medial wing covering a medial midfoot of the wearer, and a lateral wing covering a lateral midfoot of the wearer, in which a part of the tongue on a medial foot side from a center in a foot width direction and the medial wing constitute a medial-foot tongue portion, a part of the tongue on a lateral foot side from the center in the foot width direction and the lateral wing constitute a latera...