US Patent Issued to Boa Technology on March 25 for "Reel based closure devices for tightening a ski boot" (Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,803, issued on March 25, was assigned to Boa Technology Inc. (Denver).

"Reel based closure devices for tightening a ski boot" was invented by Thomas Andrew Trudel (Denver), Charles Corbett (Denver), Josef Duller (Louisville, Colo.), Ilya Minkin (Denver), Bobby Dickensheets (Denver), Stefan Sporrer (Mondsee, Austria), Alessandro Manzato (Mondsee, Austria) and Eric Irwin (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differentially tightenable ski boot includes a lower shell and an upper cuff that is pivotally coupled with the lower shell. The ski boot includes a first tightening system that is coupled with the lower shell and a second tigh...