ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,124, issued on April 29.
"Knife holder, knife holder device, and knife" was invented by Yasuhiro Tsutsumi (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knife holder includes a holder body configured to hold a top portion of a spine of a knife and suspend the entire knife in air, a magnet attached to the holder body and configured to adhere to and magnetically support the top portion of the spine of the knife in a detachable manner, and a guide provided at an insertion position further in front than the magnet when the knife is inserted from an insertion portion of the holder body, the guide including a contact portion configured t...