US Patent Issued to KAI R&D CENTER on Sept. 15 for "Kitchen knife and method for manufacturing kitchen knife" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,620, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KAI R&D CENTER Co. LTD. (Seki, Japan).

"Kitchen knife and method for manufacturing kitchen knife" was invented by Hironobu Tsukimoto (Seki, Japan), Junji Mishina (Seki, Japan), Toshiya Nakamura (Seki, Japan) and Koichi Momose (Seki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen knife includes a spine-side member located on a spine side; and a blade-side member located on a blade side and composed of a stacked member including a stack of two or more different metallic materials. The blade-side member is thinner than the spine-side member, and a pattern is formed on the blade-side member by pr...