ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,150, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cutting device" was invented by Kohei Suto (Tokyo), Takashi Morimura (Tokyo), Kazunobu Yoshimura (Tokyo) and Shoma Sano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric cutting device includes: a pair of cutting blades cutting an object by rotating about a rotation central axis; an electric motor for operating the cutting blades; and a guide plate having a recess in a manner of receding along a predetermined direction for housing the object in advance when cutting the object. An edge of the recess includes a pair of linear portions. When a position of the guide plate at ...