ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,596, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to YAMABIKO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power cutting machine" was invented by Tadafumi Miyamoto (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Umetani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power cutting machine includes a main body including a motor, an arm connected to the main body at its base end and including a belt transmission mechanism configured to transmit drive power of the motor, and a working device connected to the head end of the arm and including a cutting blade configured to be rotated by power transmitted via the belt transmission mechanism. The arm includes a brake mechanism configured to apply a brake to a driv...