US Patent Issued to Drake Labs on June 3 for "Personalized footwear with integrated caging system" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,955, issued on June 3, was assigned to Drake Labs Inc. (Seattle).

"Personalized footwear with integrated caging system" was invented by Stephan Drake (Salt Lake City), Robert John Horacek (Park City, Utah) and Raymond Alfred Horacek (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customizable footwear assembly and manufacturing method. The footwear assembly having a plantar shell and dorsal shell forming a caging system. The plantar shell has a contour shaped to conform with a bottom surface contour of the wearer's foot. An upper perimeter portion forms an opening to the interior area configured to receive at least a portion of the ...