US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Oct. 27 for "Cutting device including cutting blade and cutting lever whose rotation causes cutting blade to move" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,862, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Cutting device including cutting blade and cutting lever whose rotation causes cutting blade to move" was invented by Yusuke Ikemoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Tomohiro Wada (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device includes a support plate, a shaft, a cutting blade, and a cutter lever. The cutting blade is movable between a cutting position and a retracted position. The cutter lever is supported by the shaft so as to be rotatable about the shaft between a normal position and an operated position. The cutter lever includes a first wall, an inse...