Patent ID: 8782929
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. An outsole for a shoe which lessens the impact on a wearer's heel region, the outsole comprising: a top and a bottom, a front portion, a rear portion, and a center portion located between the front portion and the rear portion; wherein the rear portion of the outsole comprises a heel region having a cut-out in a center part of the heel region; and wherein the cut-out extends from an epicenter of the heel region to an end of a rear of the heel region through a portion of the outsole between the top and through the bottom of the outsole and opens only toward the rear portion and bottom of the outsole, forming sidewall portions about the cut-out which are open toward and proximate the rear and toward the bottom of the outsole, where the sidewalls have a ground contacting surface, leaving a portion of the bottom of the outsole and a portion of the rear portion of the outsole open.