ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,666, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Inoveight Ltd. (Staveley, Great Britain).
"Shoe sole" was invented by Bodil Yucki Oudshoorn (Kendal, Great Britain), Luke Mcconnie (Staveley, Great Britain) and Phil Rees (Derby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole structure for a shoe having a bottom surface includes a forefoot sole portion, arranged towards a distal end along a longitudinal central axis of the sole structure; a rearfoot sole portion, arranged towards a proximal end along the longitudinal central axis of the sole structure; and an articulation portion, adapted to operably couple the forefoot sole portion and th...