US Patent Issued to MIZUNO on May 13 for "Sole for a shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,450, issued on May 13, was assigned to MIZUNO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sole for a shoe" was invented by Yo Kajiwara (Osaka, Japan) and Yohei Yoshida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole for a shoe includes a sole body extending longitudinally from a heel portion to a toe portion and a curved plate provided at the sole body and extending longitudinally along the sole body. A compressive rigidity of the sole body is lowest at a metatarsophalangeal joint position. The sole body includes a sole forefoot top part disposed above the curved plate at the forefoot portion and a sole forefoot bottom part disposed below the curved ...