ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,839, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Roobi Technologies Corp. (Reston, Va.).
"Nail clipper" was invented by Marcantonio Williams Barnes (Oakton, Va.), Audrey Lynne Curry (Birmingham, Ala.), Gregory David Dubin (Birmingham, Ala.) and Jackson Henry Hedden (Birmingham, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for nail clipping, for example, animal nail clipping, include a nail clipper including a body for grasping by a user's hand. The body may define a clip space as an opening for insertion of a subject's nail for clipping. The clipper can include at least one blade coupled with the body for movement between...