US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Oct. 6 for "Cable cutting accessory" (Maryland, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,164, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Cable cutting accessory" was invented by Samuel Willits (Towson, Md.), Thomas R. Kaye Jr. (Fallston, Md.) and Marco Lourenco (Lebanon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a housing. A device may include a rotatable input shaft at least partially received in the housing and configured to be coupled to a power tool. A device may include a rotatable blade configured to be rotated upon rotation of the rotatable input shaft. A device may include a jaw assembly coupled to the housing and including a first jaw and a second jaw operable to g...