US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Cigar cutter with positioning mechanism for selectively keeping the same in open or closed state" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,988, issued on Aug. 12.

"Cigar cutter with positioning mechanism for selectively keeping the same in open or closed state" was invented by Chun-Kai Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cigar cutter with a positioning mechanism keeping it in an open or closed state includes a rotatable ring, an elastic element, an arresting block and a guide track. Pressing the cigar cutter's cutting blade unit(s) drives the rotatable ring to rotate to compress the elastic element, and the arresting block touches an abutting block and a shoulder in the guide track and is engaged to one end of the guide track, so the cigar cutter is in...