US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on June 16 for "Cutting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,344, issued on June 16, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cutting device" was invented by Yuuta Masakawa (Shiga, Japan), Satoshi Sobagaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Hitoshi Ogawa (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cutting device capable of more reliably preventing shavings from entering a gap formed between a dial and a main body. A cutting device according to the present disclosure includes a main body, a fixed blade fixed to the main body, a movable blade capable of reciprocating in a slidable way with respect to the fixed blade, and a dial that ...