US Patent Issued to ASICS on Dec. 9 for "Plate, sole, and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,799, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Plate, sole, and shoe" was invented by Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan), Kenji Hirata (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Nishimura (Kobe, Japan) and Takayuki Kogure (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate is used for a sole that forms a part of a shoe. The plate includes a mid- and rear-foot support portion in a shape extending from a position superimposed on a rear end portion of a metatarsal bone of a wearer of the shoe in a thickness direction of the sole to a position superimposed on a heel bone of the wearer, the mid- and rear-foot support portion supporting a midfoot p...