US Patent Issued to Graco Minnesota on Sept. 15 for "Power tool attachment" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,665, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Graco Minnesota Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Power tool attachment" was invented by Diane L. Olson (Elk River, Minn.), Dennis D. Kemmetmueller (Rogers, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Ness (Anoka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool attachment is configured to connect to a power tool at a static interface and a dynamic interface. The static interface statically fixes the power tool and power tool attachment together. The dynamic interface provides rotational motion generated by the power tool to the power tool attachment. The rotational motion is provided to a drive of the power tool attachment ...