ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,980, issued on March 3, was assigned to wolfcraft GmbH (Kempenich, Germany).

"Cutting load and/or bevel" was invented by Zbigniew Noniewicz (Kempenich, Germany) and Lothar Woick (Hoenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for carrying out miter cuts includes two limbs which are secured to a central element in a pivotal manner in each case and so as to be fixable in pivoted positions. Each limb has a stop strip with a contact surface, wherein the contact surface lies opposite a counter contact surface formed by a counter stop. The distance between the contact surface and the counter contact surface can be adjusted by ...