US Patent Issued to Stanley Black & Decker on Aug. 11 for "Tape measure with pop out blade presentation" (Connecticut, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,366, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Tape measure with pop out blade presentation" was invented by Gregory Cyr (Oakville, Conn.), Joshua P. Schafer (Wolcott, Conn.), Somen Rajkumar Jaiswal (Danbury, Conn.), Joseph T. Novak (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Matthew Christopher Green (Amherst, Mass.), Benjamin J. Green (Stamford, Conn.) and Ke Lu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractable rule assembly comprises a housing, a reel, an elongated blade, a hook, a coil spring, and a blade advancer. The reel is rotatably mounted in the housing. The elongated blade is wound on the re...