US Patent Issued to Bruce McRae Allen on Aug. 4 for "Controller for a drill" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,696, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Bruce McRae Allen (Glen Forrest, Australia).

"Controller for a drill" was invented by Bruce McRae Allen (Glen Forrest, Australia), Hans Kunz (Bayswater, Australia), Thomas James Drummond Clarkson (Attadale, Australia), Kathryn Beech (Spearwood, Australia), James Filear (Stoneville, Australia) and Carlos Uribe (Woodlands, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for controlling a motor of a drill comprising an output of a signal for controlling a speed of rotation of the motor, a processor for producing the signal, wherein the signal is automatically varied according to a waveform, wh...