US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Aug. 25 for "Impact tools and control modes" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,399, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Impact tools and control modes" was invented by Brian E. Friedman (Baltimore), Peter Hague Wadeson (Silver Spring, Md.), Eric Louis Kunz (Shrewsbury, Pa.), BhanuPrakash Villuri (Towson, Md.), Tyler Petrus (Baltimore) and Wing W. Lin (Bel Air, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact power tool includes a housing, a motor, a controller, an output member configured to be rotated when the motor is energized, and an impact mechanism configured to rotationally drive the output member. The impact mechanism is configured to selectively apply rotational im...