ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,912, issued on April 1, was assigned to Reekon Tools Inc. (Boston).
"Digital linear measuring device" was invented by Christian Reed (Chelsea, Mass.), Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos (Boston), Colton Black (Arlington, Mass.) and Matt Nestor (Norwell, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital linear measuring device that digitizes the length of the extended tape and displays this measurement on a primary display screen that continually updates to a current measurement. The user can decide when to save a measurement, at which point the saved measurement will appear on a secondary screen (either a portion of the primary display, or a s...