US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Sept. 1 for "Power tool accessory system with brace" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,268, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Power tool accessory system with brace" was invented by Marco Lourenco (Baltimore), Darren B. Moss (York, Pa.), Aland Santamarina (Woodbine, Md.), Samuel Willits (Towson, Md.) and Thomas R. Kaye Jr. (Fallston, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool accessory system for a power tool includes a power tool accessory with a housing, an input shaft rotatably driven by a power tool, and a working tool driven to perform an operation upon rotation of the input shaft. The system also includes a brace configured to removably couple the housing to the po...