US 12,133,574 B2
Footwear with a movable protuberance and an outsole map for protuberance positioning
Oren Livne, Tel Aviv (IL); and Yaakov Shmuel Gottlieb, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to APOS MEDICAL ASSETS LTD., Tel Aviv (IL)
Appl. No. 17/312,603
Filed by APOS MEDICAL ASSETS LTD., Tel Aviv (IL)
PCT Filed Dec. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IL2019/051367
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/121314, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/779,055, filed on Dec. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0039515 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A43B 3/00 (2022.01); A43B 7/1425 (2022.01); A43B 7/144 (2022.01); A43B 7/1464 (2022.01); A43B 7/1469 (2022.01); A43B 13/14 (2006.01); A61H 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A43B 7/1464 (2022.01) [A43B 3/0036 (2013.01); A43B 7/1425 (2013.01); A43B 7/144 (2013.01); A43B 7/1469 (2022.01); A43B 13/145 (2013.01); A61H 1/0266 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A footwear, comprising:
an outsole having an anterior portion and a posterior portion wherein at least one of said anterior portion and said posterior portion are configured to receive at least one protuberance;
the at least one of said anterior portion and said posterior portion comprising a visible outsole map having a plurality of parallel longitudinal lines;
said at least one protuberance being slidingly and rotatably mounted on said outsole such that the at least one protuberance can be moved to a variety of positions with respect to the visible outsole map and to contact a ground at a protuberance vertex;
wherein said at least one protuberance comprises: (i) a protuberance pivot providing a rotation axis for the at least one protuberance, said rotation axis having an offset position with respect to the protuberance vertex; and (ii) a set of pointers positioned along a circumference of the at least one protuberance;
wherein each of said variety of positions is identifiable with a unique code comprising a pointer identifier representing one pointer of the set of pointers and a longitudinal line identifier representing one longitudinal line of the plurality of parallel longitudinal lines.