ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,862, issued on Sept. 30.
"Tile removal assembly" was invented by Dalton Lynch (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tile removal assembly includes a tool that has a handle and a head attached to the handle. The head has a claw portion extending laterally away from the handle and a chisel portion extending laterally away from the handle in an opposite direction from the claw portion. The claw portion has a thickness that is sufficiently thin to facilitate the claw portion to flex when the head is swung toward a tile is bonded to a hard floor surface. In this way the claw portion can travel between the tile and the hard...