ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,328, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TIY Products LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Elastic hair tie dispenser" was invented by Jerritt K. Elliott (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an elastic hair tie material and an elastic hair tie dispenser for dispensing varying lengths of elastic hair tie material. More particularly, the present Elastic Hair Tie Dispenser device has been configured with a flexible cover, a pivoting cutting blade actuator and cutting blade to conveniently dispense elastic hair tie material of varying color, cut to any desired length by the user of the dispenser, to be worn by wom...