ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,089, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hilti Aktiegesellschaft (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Electric hand-held power tool with ball-type latching clutch" was invented by Sarah Cziepluch (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), Rory Britz (Buchloe, Germany) and Bence Gabor Szucs (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electric hand-held power tool, in particular a hammer drill and/or rotary hammer, having a function setting tube, which can be actuated via a manual function selector switch to bring about various operating modes, a guide tube equipped with a tool fitting, and having a ball-type latching clutch for transmitting a rotary m...