ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,182, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Hand-held machine tool" was invented by Christian Koschel (Augsburg, Germany), Christian Ruff (Stadtbergen, Germany), Stefan Schwarz (Landsberg, Germany) and Georg Furfanger (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held machine tool (1) is provided including a housing (2), with a drive device for actuating a tool that can be brought into operative connection with the machine tool (1) and a control device (8) for actuating the drive device (4) being provided, and the control device (4) being designed with a control element (10), and at least one capacitive...