US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on June 2 for "Power tool accessories for cutting tubular members" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,213, issued on June 2, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Power tool accessories for cutting tubular members" was invented by Thomas R. Kaye Jr. (Fallston, Md.) and Melissa Wyrwas (Severn, 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 housing. The transmission includes an input gear and an output gear with a first plurality of teeth. The cutting head has a central opening, a cutting blade protruding into the centra...