US Patent Issued to Mizuno on Oct. 7 for "Fabric for shoe upper, shoe upper, and shoe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,367, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mizuno Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fabric for shoe upper, shoe upper, and shoe" was invented by Kenjiro Kita (Osaka, Japan), Takao Oda (Osaka, Japan), Mina Hayashiguchi (Osaka, Japan), Takehiro Taguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Issei Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric used for a tongue-integrated upper of a shoe comprises a tubular fabric element. The tubular fabric element comprises a first sock part and a second sock part, the first sock part comprises a first foot and a first leg, the second sock part comprises a second foot and a second leg, with the first foot, the first leg, t...