US Patent Issued to Kantas Products on June 23 for "Folding knife with positioning mechanism and elastic bar" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,815, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kantas Products Co. Ltd. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Folding knife with positioning mechanism and elastic bar" was invented by Yang-Fu Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A folding knife having a positioning mechanism includes a blade having a passage-allowing groove, a handle pivotally connected to the blade, an elastic bar fixable in the handle, an engaging portion mountable in the handle, and a positioning portion. When stored in the handle, the blade is applied by the elastic bar with a rotating force that pushes it along a direction out of the handle. The engaging portion...