US Patent Issued to ASICS on Oct. 14 for "Upper and shoe including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,000, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Upper and shoe including the same" was invented by Chihaya Suzuki (Hyogo, Japan), Seiji Yano (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroki Nakamura (Hyogo, Japan), Satoru Abe (Hyogo, Japan) and Sho Takamasu (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper includes an upper body covering the instep of a foot. An upper body includes a first layer, a second layer disposed with a gap from the first layer, and a third layer connecting the first layer and the second layer. A part of the upper body is disposed with a low stiffness region having lower stiffness than an adjacent region. At le...