ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,106, issued on July 21, was assigned to Fine Steel Engineering Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Nailer and driver for nailer" was invented by Keijiro Imaizumi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a nailer and a driver for a nailer that is reduced in weight and will produce a reduced burden on the user due to reaction to the driving action for driving in nails. A nailer includes a cylinder a piston a pressure accumulation chamber defined in the cylinder and a driver coupled to the piston. The driver includes a distal end portion configured to hit a nail a base end portion to which the piston is fixed, and an intermed...