US Patent Issued to Slice Safety Cutter on June 2 for "Cutting device with retractable blade and safety features" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,415, issued on June 2, was assigned to Slice Safety Cutter Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Cutting device with retractable blade and safety features" was invented by Thomas Scimone (Sunny Isles, Fla.), Scot Herbst (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Robert Joseph Gallegos (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device is disclosed. The cutting device has a housing, a cutting assembly that is movably disposed in the housing, the cutting assembly including a body member, an actuating member, and a first urging member that is configured to urge the actuating member away from the body member, from an inner position toward an outer position...