ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,654, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BLACK & DECKER INC.
"Blind rivet setting tool" was invented by Luca Bardare (Idstein, Germany), Tobias Heep (Idstein, Germany), Kevin Bhikadiya (Idstein, Germany), Yasar Akbaba (Idstein, Germany), Philipp Libera (Taunusstein Wehen, Germany) and Benjamin Schmidt (Idstein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blind rivet setting tool including a channel along which the broken mandrels of set rivets can be moved and a biasing element for biasing a blocking member into the channel for blocking the movement of a broken mandrel along the channel whereby a broken mandrel must urge the blocking membe...