ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,040, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cricut Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).
"Crafting apparatus" was invented by John Barrus Christensen (Bluffdale, Utah), Bryan Fred Bihlmaier (Provo, Utah), Donald Christopher Sutton (South Jordan, Utah), John Douglas Dalton (South Jordan, Utah), Ryun Bates Noble (Salt Lake City), Kyle Kenneth Johnson (Eagle Mountain, Utah), Grayson Stopp (San Francisco), Bayden Filleul (Taumarunui, New Zealand), Kurt Stalsberg (Salt Lake City), James Lynch (Dublin) and Norman Stevenson (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crafting apparatus (10) includes a working portion (22) and a base portion (20). The working...