ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,341, issued on April 8.
"Sheet material dispensing assembly with integrated gear clutch" was invented by Charles Agnew Osborne Jr. (Cumming, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "'In example, a sheet material dispenser can include a feed roller configured to engage and move the sheet material along a discharge path for dispensing thereof, and a manual dispensing assembly in communication with the feed roller. The manual dispensing assembly can include an engagement portion operatively coupled to the feed roller body for engagement by a user to rotate the feed roller to facilitate dispensing of the sheet material, and an integrated gear ...