A43C 11/004
Fastenings fixed along the upper edges of the uppers
Official title: {Fastenings fixed along the upper edges of the uppers}
A43C11/004 (Fastenings fixed along the upper edges of the uppers) appears on 183 US grants and 229 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A43C- Granted patents
- 183
- Published applications
- 229
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 285
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 19 | 12 |
| 2025 | 17 | 8 |
| 2026 | 8 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Rapid-entry footwear15 Sep 2026US 12,733,709 B2Fast IP, LLC
- Golf shoes with lace tightening system for closure and comfortable fit1 Sep 2026US 12,721,405 B2Acushnet Company
- Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a user interface for HTML SAP applications18 Aug 2026US 12,708,180 B2Precisely Software Incorporated
- Golf shoes with lace tightening system for closure and comfortable fit9 Jun 2026US 12,648,622 B2Acushnet Company
- Rapid-entry footwear having a compressible lattice structure26 May 2026US 12,635,761 B2Fast IP, LLC
- Closure mechanisms for articles of footwear10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262799 A1Converse Inc.
- Tension member guides for lacing systems27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248243 A1Boa Technology Inc.
- Article of footwear and a charging system for an article of footwear13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232068 A1NIKE, Inc.
- Golf shoes with lace tightening system for closure and comfortable fit30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215544 A1Acushnet Company
- Adaptive lacing device30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114548 A1BETTERGUARDS TECHNOLOGY GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Footwear lacing system486US 6,289,558 B1Boa Technology Inc. · 2001
- Shoe having lace tubes444US 6,052,921 A2000
- Footwear lacing system368US 7,591,050 B2Boa Technology Inc. · 2009
- Articulated footwear having a flexure member329US 6,189,239 B12001
- Reel based closure system222US 7,954,204 B2Boa Technology Inc. · 2011