ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,215, issued on June 16, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc..

"Portable electric power tool for bending elongate objects" was invented by Tobias Heep (Steinbach, Germany), Fridtjof Krische (Mainz, Germany), Rafael Gottschling (Selters, Germany), Lukas Walther (Hunstetten, Germany), Klaus Kirschenmann (Wiesbaden, Germany), Felix Kraft (Idstein, Germany), Yasar Akbaba (Neu-Isenburg, Germany) and Lukas Diehl (Niedernhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a portable electric power tool for bending elongate objects. The tool includes an electric motor having a motor output shaft, a bend mechanism having a suppor...