ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,674, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cosmostar USA LLC (Byfield, Mass.).

"Waterproof upper components of shoes, and methods of making waterproof shoes and waterproof upper components thereof" was invented by Bi Qiang Liu (Hu Han, China), Josh VanDerNoot (Boston), Fajun Xu (Shan Dong, China) and Hai Xu (Guang Dong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Waterproof upper components of shoes, and methods of making waterproof shoes and waterproof upper components thereof are described."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/515,718.

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