ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,232, issued on June 17, was assigned to Foot Scientific Inc. (Draper, Utah).
"Self-opening shoe" was invented by Christopher Robert Hughes (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shoe-opening spring includes a base with a medial edge and a lateral edge, a medial spring protruding upwardly from the medial edge of the base, and a lateral edge protruding upwardly from the lateral edge of the base. When the shoe-opening spring is present within a shoe and in a relaxed arrangement, the medial spring and the lateral spring may respectively exert medially and laterally outward forces against respective medial and lateral sides of the...