ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,927, issued on March 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Electroportable device" was invented by Olivier Baudrand (Paris), Pascale Grandjean (Guilherand-Granges, France), Frederic Nayrac (Bourg-les-Valence, France) and Christian Ricordi (Bourg-les-Valence, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electric device comprising a cylinder in which at least one movable piston slides between a start position and an end position, said piston comprising a mechanism configured to come into contact with an element to be operated once the piston is in the end position or is between the start position and the en...