ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,080, issued on May 27, was assigned to KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG (Wuppertal, Germany).

"Pliers-type cutting tool" was invented by Jan Schleiminger (Solingen, Germany), Mario Mosler (Leichlingen, Germany) and Kevin Liedtke (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pliers-type cutting tool has two tool legs which cross at a joint pin and are pivotable about an axis of rotation in a pivot plane with respect to one another. The tool legs form gripping portions on one side of the joint pin and a pliers mouth on the other side. Cutting of the pliers mouth pass into a position one over the other, at least radially on the ou...