ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,744, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Profile cutting tool" was invented by Swapnil Ashok Patel (Maharashtra, India) and Rahul Ramkrushna Raut (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A profile cutting tool includes a base, a clamp mounted to the base configured to hold an elongate workpiece, a pivotable frame pivotally mounted to the base, and a workpiece cutting assembly mounted to the pivotable frame and comprising a cutter configured to cut the elongate workpiece held in the clamp. When the pivotable frame pivots with respect to the base, the cutter is configured to move along ...