ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,698, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Hand-held machine tool" was invented by Yuan Yik Kok (Gilching, Germany), Christian Koschel (Augsburg, Germany), Christian Ruff (Stadtbergen, Germany) and Markus Looser (Landsberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held machine tool (1) including a drive device (4) by which a tool that can be brought into operative connection with the machine tool (1) can be actuated, with a control device (8) for actuating the drive device (4) and at least one capacitive sensor element (30, 35) operatively connected to the control device (8) being provided. The ...