ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,742, issued on May 6, was assigned to MIZUNO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sports glove" was invented by Kosuke Miyakoshi (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Nagao (Osaka, Japan) and Norikazu Ninomiya (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sports glove includes an index finger portion, a middle finger portion, a ring finger portion, and a little finger portion, as well as a back portion and a first resistance portion. The back portion is connected to the index finger portion, the middle finger portion, the ring finger portion, and the little finger portion. The back portion covers a back of the wearer's hand. The first resistance portion has fl...