ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,573, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to WAHL CLIPPER Corp. (Sterling, Ill.).
"Shaver" was invented by Steven Wayne Arndt (Geneseo, Ill.), Curtis J. De Frang (Rock Falls, Ill.) and Kyle Groen (Sterling, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaver includes a housing including first and second housing halves defining an interior chamber, the housing having an operational end and an opposite, bottom end, the interior chamber containing a motor acting through a transmission and configured for reciprocally driving a pair of laterally reciprocating drive fingers. Each drive finger includes an elongate finger drive element extending from t...