ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,797, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Sports shoe" was invented by Jin-An Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Che-Tseng Lin (Changhua, Taiwan) and Chien-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sports shoe is provided. The sports shoe includes a shoe vamp and a shoe sole connected to the shoe vamp. The shoe vamp includes a textile component, wherein the textile component includes thermoplastic polyester fibers. The shoe sole includes a shoe outsole and a shoe midsole foam disposed between the shoe outsole and the shoe vamp, wherein the shoe outsole includes a vulcaniza...