ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,807, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Klein Tools Inc. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Combination square and method of adjusting the same" was invented by Catalin Virgil Captarencu (Barrington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination square is provided with a square head that includes a pair of bores extending through a blade receiving slot, a pair of pins, each pin having an eccentric outermost surface and being engaged in a corresponding one of the bores, and a ruled blade that is releasably engaged in the slot such that the relative angle between the head and the blade can be adjusted by rotating one or both of the pins about th...