ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,643, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Shoe purchase recommendation device" was invented by Ippei Shiina (Hyogo, Japan), Chihiro Sugimori (Hyogo, Japan), Ken Kusano (Hyogo, Japan) and Mai Nakaya (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe purchase recommendation device includes: a user data storage unit that stores user data including at least an age and a foot size measurement value of a user; a foot size change prediction unit that calculates a change prediction value of a foot size of the user on the basis of the user data; a product information storage unit that stores product information incl...