MUMBAI, India, Sept. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202528078684 A) filed by SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc. II, California, U.S.A., on Aug. 19, for 'footwear counter for easier entry and removal.'
Inventor(s) include Weeks, John Maxwell; Kelley, Scott; Chuang, Frank F.; Liao, Pei-Chun; Tja, Johnson; Xie, Hui; and Stockbridge, Kurt.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 5, under issue no. 36/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An article of footwear includes a heel cup attached to an upper and extending from a sole structure to at least a portion of a rear heel collar of the upper. The heel cup is uniformly molded with an upper portion, midportion, and lower portion and the upper portion has a smaller mediolateral length than the midportion, and the midportion and lower portion from a concave structure configured to receive the heel. The upper portion is capable of distorting from a first configuration10 into a second configuration under a load of a user's foot when the user is donning the footwear. In the second configuration, at least part of the upper portion is lowered relative to the first configuration and is capable of returning to the first configuration after the load of the user's foot is removed. The midportion includes a peripheral portion thicker than a central portion."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under International application No.PCT/US2022/046726.
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