ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,899, issued on March 11, was assigned to Klein Tools Inc. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Combination square packaging" was invented by Brian Schulz (Kenosha, Wis.), Sean O'Flaherty (Kenosha, Wis.) and Alicia Shenal (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A merchandise product is provided with a combination square having a head having a blade receiving slot and a blade releasably received in the blade receiving slot. The merchandise product includes a packaging card including a retainer structure configured to retain the head to the packaging card, a slot extending through the packaging card, and a retention member configured to pass through...