ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,803, issued on July 14, was assigned to J&A Development Associates Inc. (Teaneck, N.J.).
"Measuring device" was invented by Jeffrey Erdfarb (Teaneck, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape measure including a housing configured to receive a flexible tape, a spring mechanism configured to allow extraction of at least a portion of the tape from the housing and retraction of the tape into the housing, a first fractional indicia along a first edge on a first side of the tape, and a first scale indicia along a second edge on the first side of the tape, wherein the first scale indica extends at least about 36 inches along the second ed...