ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,067, issued on Aug. 19.
"Flat head pin" was invented by Nikhil Gupta (Schaumburg, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flat-head pin includes: (a) a pin shaft with a pin point; (b) a flat pin head affixed to an end of the pin shaft distal to the pin point; wherein the flat pin head is characterized by a cuboid shape, preferably a tapered cuboid shape with a plurality of transverse gripping ribs spaced a distance, s, from each other. The flat pin head is characterized by a tapered cuboid shape with a plurality of transverse gripping ribs spaced a distance, s, preferably wherein the distance s is relatively large and there are relativ...