US Patent Issued to Apex Brands on Sept. 8 for "Hand tool with slide adjustment for locking flexible head" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,516, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apex Brands Inc. (Apex, N.C.).

"Hand tool with slide adjustment for locking flexible head" was invented by Minglin Shi (Shanghai), Cheng Yang (Shanghai), Yi-Hsiang Tseng (Taiwan, China) and Tsung-Hsien Shen (Taiwan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible interface (130) may operably couple a head portion (110, 210) and a shaft (120, 220) of a hand tool (100, 200). The flexible interface may include a retention assembly (160) and a locking assembly (150) including an actuator (152, 250, 250') defining a locked state and an unlocked state for the hand tool. In the unlocked state, an angl...