US Patent Issued to Horizon on June 23 for "Cutting apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,820, issued on June 23, was assigned to Horizon Inc. (Takashima, Japan).

"Cutting apparatus" was invented by Masayuki Kashiba (Takashima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a cutting apparatus including: an upper knife; a lower knife fixed at a predetermined position; a fixing member to which the upper knife is fixed; a fixing mechanism configured to detachably fix the upper knife at a fixing position of the fixing member; and a motion mechanism configured to move the fixing member between a non-cutting position and a cutting position in the vertical direction to perform switching between a non-cutting state where a fir...