ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,619, issued on Sept. 2.
"Hair clippers with flexing electrically adjustable blades" was invented by Lonnie Andrew Holmes (Coram, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flex clipper provides a feature to help the cutting blade set float more effortlessly by adjusting automatically to the contours of a client's head to prevent getting stuck and causing cuts and irritation to the scalp. The hair clipper preferably also uses a self-contained motor-driven pivotable adjustment mechanism to adjust the relative position of the stationary and reciprocating blades of a common type of blade set. One or more on/off switches operable by the thumb ...