ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,075, issued on July 22, was assigned to Magic Shields Inc. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Impact absorbing flooring" was invented by Yosuke Hirayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroshi Shimomura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Taiki Sugiura (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an impact absorbing flooring that reduces an impact caused by falling of a user. The impact absorbing flooring includes a structural layer having a plurality of impact absorbing structures, each of which is a truncated pyramid-shaped structure and has a recess on a side of the truncated pyramid that is substantially not horizontal to a ground surfac...