ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,895, issued on June 30, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc..
"Hole cutter with chip egress aperture" was invented by Joseph Thomas Novak (East Longmeadow, Mass.) and Matthew Christopher Green (Amherst, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hole cutter has a substantially cylindrical blade body defining a blade body circumference, a cutting edge formed on one end of the blade body, and an axially-elongated slot formed through the substantially cylindrical blade body. The axially-elongated slot is configured to receive chips flowing from the cutting edge within the interior of the blade body and (i) into the slot and/or (ii) through t...