US Patent Issued to BLACK & DECKER on June 23 for "Fastening tool having a magazine pusher position detection system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,765, issued on June 23, was assigned to BLACK & DECKER INC. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Fastening tool having a magazine pusher position detection system" was invented by Michael Sikora (Baltimore) and Luke Moloznick (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening tool having a magazine pusher position detection system that informs the tool of a dry fire state due to less than a predetermined number of fasteners in the magazine assembly. The magazine pusher position detection system includes a sensor and a sensor target having a characteristic that is sensed by the sensor. When the characteristic is interrupted by an external member...