US Patent Issued to MIZUNO on May 20 for "Sole for a shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,983, issued on May 20, was assigned to MIZUNO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Path length L is a distance from the origin to the tip toe position along the sole top surface, intersection C is a point between the sole bottom surface and a line perpendicular to the reference line S through the position of 0.45 L, and intersection D is a point between the sole bottom surface and a line perpendicular to the reference line S through the position of 0.60 L. In a sole stable posture in which the sole is in contact with the gro...