US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Sept. 8 for "Ratchet tool" (Connecticut, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,505, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Ratchet tool" was invented by Daniel Cheveralls (Raleigh, N.C.), Peter Nguyen (Euless, Texas) and Bennett G. Records (Branford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to a ratchet tool including a ratchet head having a drive gear, a pawl, and a spring plunger system that applies an even and consistent distribution of loading to the pawl at a contact interface between the pawl and the drive gear during a ratcheting operation."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Application No. ...