ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,949, issued on May 6.
"Razor blade protraction/retraction device" was invented by Howard Abrams (Brigantine, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held safety cutting device that facilitates an operator cutting a material without having to tilt the cutting device while cutting and minimizing the operator exposure to the cutting blade pivotally connected therein. The device includes a biased safety slide which must first be placed in an enabling state before the operator can depress a biased activator to pivotally-extend a portion of the blade out of the housing bottom to permit cutting or scoring the material. The blade is relea...