US Patent Issued to Pinwrest Development Group on Aug. 12 for "Protective articles having a plurality of core members" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,020, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Pinwrest Development Group LLC (New York).

"Protective articles having a plurality of core members" was invented by Mark D. Dodd (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outsole with a conformable substrate with a depression and a core inset in the depression. The core includes a plurality of plates, a first one of the plates is hingedly attached, at one or more edges of the first plate, to one or more substantially adjacent other plates in the plurality of plates, where each hinge hingedly attaching an edge of the first plate to another plate joins less than the entire respective hinged...