US Patent Issued to Hilti on Sept. 8 for "Device for mechanical overload protection and production process for same" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,492, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Device for mechanical overload protection and production process for same" was invented by Benjamin Puchele (RoBhaupten, Germany), Josef Schittl (Thueringen, Austria), Michael Hinterstoisser (Emmering, Germany), Martin Enzenhofer (Feldkirch, Austria), Andres Hernandez Gonzalez (Marktoberdorf, Germany), Franz Huber (Markt Wald/ Oberneufnach, Germany) and Markus Muller (Burserberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for mechanical overload protection in a drive train of a machine tool, the drive train having an output side with an output shaft and a...