ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,173, issued on Nov. 25.
"Belt holder for tape measure" was invented by Won Woo Choi (Busan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a belt holder for a tape measure including a holder body, a clip holding part, a locking bracket, a bracket spring, a push button with a one-way rotation inducing groove, a push button spring, and a position maintenance pin, wherein due to an operation of the push button and the elastic force of the push button spring, a locking jaw of the locking bracket can be easily switched between locked and unlocked states as the push button is pushed in and out."
The patent was filed on April 15, 2...