US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on July 7 for "Oscillating tool" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,407, issued on July 7, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Oscillating tool" was invented by Yanchao Wang (Timonium, Md.), Stephen W. Songy (Towson, Md.) and Tareq Khreim (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillating tool including a housing, a motor in the housing, a multitool shaft driven by the motor, and a clamp assembly operatively driven by the motor through the multitool shaft in an oscillating motion. The clamp assembly is configured to selectively hold a power tool accessory and a fan on the multitool shaft. The fan is operatively driven by the motor with the multi-tool shaft and the fan ...