US Patent Issued to Benchmade Knife on May 26 for "Vertically oriented curved liner spring for knife handle" (Oregon, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,801, issued on May 26, was assigned to Benchmade Knife Co. Inc. (Oregon City, Ore.).

"Vertically oriented curved liner spring for knife handle" was invented by Wes Duey (Oregon City, Ore.), Robert Horacek (Park City, Utah), James Dobbs (Milwaukie, Ore.), Austin Nelson (Portland, Ore.), Nate Radcliffe (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Peter Groat (Molalla, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liner for a folding knife includes a curved elongated spring to bias a blade of the knife to an open or closed position. The spring may extend in an arc from an origination point to a free end, within a cutout region of a body of the liner. The spring may ...