ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,825, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TBL Licensing LLC (Stratham, N.H.).
"Strain-hardened safety toe for footwear" was invented by Ryan Dulude (Lee, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective device, in particular a safety toe cap, for use with an article of footwear is provided. A safety toe cap of the present technology includes one or more strain hardened portions configured to strengthen or reinforce sections of the safety toe cap against impact, particularly from above. The one or more strain hardened portions have increased strength in relation to adjacent non-strain hardened portions and therefore may maintain adequat...