ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,984, issued on March 18, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Shoe sole member and shoe" was invented by Junichiro Tateishi (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Yamade (Kobe, Japan), Daisuke Sawada (Kobe, Japan), Takashi Osaki (Kobe, Japan) and Kenichi Harano (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a shoe sole member partially or entirely formed of a resin composite in which a plurality of resin foam particles are integrated with one or more non-foamed elastic bodies, wherein a resin composition constituting the one or more elastic bodies and a resin composition constituting the plurality of resin foam particles both includ...