ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,647, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cutting device" was invented by Kohei Suto (Tokyo), Takashi Morimura (Tokyo), Kazunobu Yoshimura (Tokyo) and Shoma Sano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric cutting device includes: a pair of cutting blades for clamping and cutting an object; an electric motor; and a drive mechanism for operating the cutting blades. The drive mechanism includes a movement member movable in a predetermined direction by a driving force of the electric motor and converts movement of the movement member into an opening and closing operation of the cutting blades. The drive mechanis...