US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Cordless drill having rotating magazine for bits" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,063, issued on July 21.

"Cordless drill having rotating magazine for bits" was invented by Dave Carr (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cordless drill having rotating magazine for bits includes a drill body, a drill chuck, an electric motor, a trigger switch, a magazine, a mechanical drive bypass, and a battery pack. A linear actuator within the magazine may deploy a first bit selected from a set of bits stored within the magazine by pushing the first bit forward into the drill chuck. The first bit may be rotated by the electric motor in order to drill a hole. The mechanical drive bypass may transfer the rotation...