US Patent Issued to Cricut on Dec. 9 for "Crafting apparatus assemblies, systems, devices, kits, mechanisms and methodologies for utilizing the same" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,277, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cricut Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Crafting apparatus assemblies, systems, devices, kits, mechanisms and methodologies for utilizing the same" was invented by Jeremy Burton Crystal (Springville, Utah), Sterling Kingdon (Cedar Hills, Utah), Korey Curtis (Herriman, Utah), Henry F. Haskell Jr. (Salt Lake City) and Biju Kumar Vasudevan (Riverton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool including a tool surface and further including coding indicia linked, at least indirectly, with the surface of the tool, the coding indicia capable of being detected by a sensor, the coding indicia functioning as a ...