ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,309, issued on July 22, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Footwear and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Genki Hatano (Kobe, Japan), Kenta Tateno (Kobe, Japan), Waka Inoue (Kobe, Japan), Shingo Takahashi (Kobe, Japan), Masaki Oohara (Kobe, Japan) and Norihiko Taniguchi (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A footwear includes: a foot bed portion that supports a sole of a foot of a wearer and has a ground contact surface; and a foot cover portion that covers an instep of the foot of the wearer. At least a part of the foot bed portion and at least a part of the foot cover portion are formed of a single a...