US Patent Issued to ASICS on Jan. 27 for "Method of manufacturing shoe and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,862, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing shoe and shoe" was invented by Shinsaku Wakasugi (Kobe, Japan), Satoru Abe (Kobe, Japan), Genki Hatano (Kobe, Japan), Norihiko Taniguchi (Kobe, Japan), Shingo Takashima (Kobe, Japan), Yuya Kozuka (Kobe, Japan), Yousuke Atarashi (Kobe, Japan), Masanori Sakaguchi (Kobe, Japan) and Kenta Takahama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a shoe includes preparing a flexible shell having an internal space, preparing an upper body in a form of a bag, the upper body being provided with an opening in a portion correspondin...