ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,765, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"Fastener tool with drive speed adjustment" was invented by Merrill Myers (Parkville, Md.), Alex Dignan (Towson, Md.) and Dylan Parker (Towson, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener tool that drives a fastener into a workpiece includes a housing, a nose assembly, a driver, a motor, a flywheel, one or more sensors, and a controller. The controller is configured to adjust a speed of the driver based on 1) a difference between a first angular velocity of the flywheel measured by the one or more sensors at or before the start of the drive commenceme...