US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Sept. 1 for "Impact tools and control modes" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,150, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Impact tools and control modes" was invented by Brian E. Friedman (Baltimore), Peter Hague Wadeson (Silver Spring, Md.), Eric Louis Kunz (Shrewsbury, Pa.), BhanuPrakash Villuri (Towson, Md.), Tyler Petrus (Baltimore), Wing W. Lin (Bel Air, Md.) and Abhinav Jayakumar (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact power tool includes a motor, a controller, and an impact mechanism configured to rotationally drive an output spindle. The controller is configured to control power delivered to the motor, during a third phase of operation after a second p...