US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Feb. 10 for "Power tool and power tool accessories for cutting tubular members" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,842, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Power tool and power tool accessories for cutting tubular members" was invented by Thomas R. Kaye Jr. (Fallston, Md.), Melissa Wyrwas (Severn, Md.), Benjamin Tucker (Ellicott City, Md.), Marco Lourenco (Baltimore), Aland Santamarina (Woodbine, Md.), Samuel McManus (Bel Air, Md.) and Daniel Cohen (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool accessory for cutting tubular members includes a housing, an input shaft configured to be coupled to a rotary power tool, a transmission, and a cutting head removably received in a front end of the housin...