ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,479, issued on June 10, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Shock absorber, shoe sole, and shoe" was invented by Yutaro Iwasa (Kobe, Japan), Yoshiyasu Ando (Kobe, Japan) and Keita Ozawa (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorber includes a shock absorbing portion having a three-dimensional shape formed by a wall in which an outer shape is defined by a pair of parallel curved surfaces. The shock absorbing portion includes at least one three-dimensional structure body obtained by changing a shape of a unit structure body thickened based on a unit structure of a Schwartz P structure. The shape of the three-dime...