ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,511, issued on April 22, was assigned to NINGBO XINGWEI CUTTING-TOOLS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).
"Multi-functional knife" was invented by Mingxiang Pan (Ningbo, China) and Yuancheng Ye (Ningbo, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional knife is provided, including: a housing provided with an accommodating cavity and an opening, where the opening is provided at a front end of the housing; a blade holder configured to hold a blade and removably accommodated in the accommodating cavity; a first guide assembly including a first guide rail and a drive member which is drivably connected to a front side of the blade h...