US Patent Issued to Hilti on June 23 for "Energy supply device having a rotatably mounted locking element and power tool for connection to such an energy supply device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,773, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Energy supply device having a rotatably mounted locking element and power tool for connection to such an energy supply device" was invented by Markus Hartmann (Mauerstetten, Germany), Rory Britz (Starnberg, Germany), Markus Holubarsch (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), David Klingen (Munich), Robert Stanger (Kaufbeuren, Germany), Stefan Schmid (Untermuhlhausen, Germany), Bernhard Liebert (Pfaffenhofen A.D. Glonn, Germany), Ali Schad (Munich) and Uwe Hainke (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy supply device is provided, in particular for a powe...