ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,011, issued on March 24.
"Drive mechanism and viscous material dispensing gun" was invented by Miro Petrovic (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact drive mechanism for converting rotary motion to linear motion comprising a casing, gearbox, and beam coupled to the casing and gearbox, wherein the gearbox advances along the casing and the beam extends out from the casing simultaneously in response to rotary input to the gearbox. In its preferred embodiment, the invention comprises the drive mechanism incorporated into a handheld viscous material dispenser, wherein the beam further comprises a plunger face which acts...