ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,762, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Chang Gung University (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Sole data collection device and sole data collection method" was invented by Ting-Ting Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Miao-Yu Liao (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chia-Chih Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Syuan Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and I-Feng Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole data collection device and a sole data collection method are disclosed. The sole data collection device includes an image capture module, a temperature detection module and a monofilament testing module. The sole data collection device is used for collecting the sole data of a user...