US Patent Issued to ASICS on Nov. 11 for "Sole structure and shoe with a plurality of concave and convex shapes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,114, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Sole structure and shoe with a plurality of concave and convex shapes" was invented by Shingo Takashima (Hyogo, Japan), Norihiko Taniguchi (Hyogo, Japan), Yuya Kozuka (Hyogo, Japan), Genki Hatano (Hyogo, Japan), Satoru Abe (Hyogo, Japan), Masanori Sakaguchi (Hyogo, Japan), Hisashi Maejima (Hyogo, Japan), Seiji Yano (Hyogo, Japan), Takayuki Ueda (Hyogo, Japan) and Katsunori Yagyu (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure of a shoe includes a rearfoot-side concave-shaped portion including a vertex region in a bottom surface of the sole in a rearfoo...