US Patent Issued to ASICS on Feb. 3 for "Shoe with a heel guiding portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,958, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Shoe with a heel guiding portion" was invented by Genki Hatano (Hyogo, Japan), Norihiko Taniguchi (Hyogo, Japan), Takayuki Ueda (Hyogo, Japan), Katsunori Yagyu (Hyogo, Japan), Kei Kanematsu (Hyogo, Japan) and Hironori Kitayama (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe includes a sole, an upper and a heel member. The upper is fixed to the sole and configured to cover a foot of a wearer, the upper including a wearing opening. The heel member is disposed on a heel side of the wearing opening of the upper. The heel member includes a guiding portion configured to...