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Microplane is a registered trademark{{Cite web | title=Trademark Status & Document Retrieval - Microplane | url=https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74235671&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch | access-date=2025-04-16 | date=2022-04-08 | website=United States Patent and Trademark Office}} of Grace Manufacturing Inc., a company that makes photo etched steel tools (surform tools) for grating, grinding and sanding. It was created by brothers Richard & Jeff Grace in the mid-1990s. The Grace brothers set out to make a wood-carving rasper{{Cite news |last=Edge |first=John T. |date=2011-01-11 |title=How the Microplane Grater Escaped the Garage |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/dining/12united.html |access-date=2022-05-04 |issn=0362-4331}} and ended up with a new invention, which in 1991 would come to be called Microplane.{{Cite web |last=Price |first=Will |date=2022-02-13 |title=One of the World's Most Popular Kitchen Tools Was a Complete Fluke |url=http://gearpatrol.com/home/a519958/how-microplane-was-invented/ |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Gear Patrol |language=en-US}}