US Patent Issued to BIC Violex Single Member on Sept. 8 for "Marking instrument" (Greek Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,664, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece).

"Marking instrument" was invented by Christos Galanis (Anoixi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip reinforcing system that is configured to allow a user to adjust a rigidity attribute of the marking tip of a instrument, the tip reinforcing system including: a tip core cavity that is a hollow portion within a marking tip that extends axially through the marking tip, a tip reinforcing core configured to be movable within the tip core cavity in order to change the internal structure of the marking tip, and a core moving mechanism configured t...