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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2025
Wolverine Outdoors, Inc., Rockford, MI (US);
Dewayne Dale, Howard City, MI (US);
Eric P. Fracassi, Grandville, MI (US);
Wolverine Outdoors, Inc., Rockford, MI (US);
Abstract
A footwear construction including an upper defining an aperture rearward of a toe box in or near an instep and a vent panel defining holes secured to the upper over the aperture to provide venting to a user's foot in the upper. An outsole can be joined with the upper. The holes can be slots extending across a longitudinal axis of the footwear, separated from one another by respective transverse beams that can be parallel to the slots. A mesh panel can be disposed adjacent an interior of the vent panel, and airflow can pass through the holes and mesh providing venting. The vent panel can include a boundary step, and the aperture can define a boundary edge that can be stitched to and interfit to one another so that an exterior of the upper is flush with and/or smoothly transitions to an exterior of the vent panel.
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