ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,447, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Footwear" was invented by Yuka Matsuhisa (Kobe, Japan), Seiji Yano (Kobe, Japan), Kenji Hirata (Kobe, Japan) and Genki Hatano (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Footwear includes a footbed portion including a support region. The support region includes an upper surface-side projection portion forming region having a plurality of upper surface-side projection portions. A maximum outer dimension in a cross-section orthogonal to a projecting direction of each of the plurality of upper surface-side projection portions is not greater than 3.0 mm. A projection leng...