A43B 7/38
Elevating, i.e. height increasing
Official title: Elevating, i.e. height increasing (with elevated heel parts inside A43B7/16; lengthening pieces for natural legs A61F3/00)
A43B7/38 (Elevating, i.e. height increasing) appears on 72 US grants and 95 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A43B- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 95
- Assignees
- 30
- Inventors
- 128
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2005 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 2 | 8 |
| 2016 | 2 | 9 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 |
| 2020 | 6 | 6 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and system for combining high heel and flat shoe9 Oct 2025US 2025/0311806 A1
- Golf arc footwear5 Jun 2025US 2025/0176658 A1
- Articles of footwear with adaptive-height bladder elements13 Mar 2025US 2025/0082064 A1NIKE, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Co-molded 3D elements90US 10,039,342 B2adidas AG · 2018
- Footwear75US 4,598,484 A1986
- Interchangeable footwear comprising multiple shoe inserts59US 7,591,084 B22009
- Adjustable height insole system56US 5,732,481 ACreative Labs, Inc. · 1998
- Device for high-heeled shoes and method of constructing43US 7,594,346 B2Hbn Shoe, LLC · 2009