ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,503, issued on March 17, was assigned to Festool GmbH (Wendlingen, Germany).

"Connection assembly for a hand-guided machine tool and hand-guided machine tool" was invented by Stefan Tulodziecki (Neuhausen A.d.F., Germany) and Hans-Peter Albrecht (Wendlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection assembly for connecting a tool head and a further machine module of a hand-guided machine tool wherein the connection assembly includes at least two connection parts following one another along a longitudinal axis and each having a connection section via which the connection parts are connectable to one another."

The patent wa...