US Patent Issued to JACOBS CHUCK MANUFACTURING (SUZHOU), APEX BRANDS on April 14 for "Chuck with slip protection" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,972, issued on April 14, was assigned to JACOBS CHUCK MANUFACTURING (SUZHOU) COMPANY LTD. (Suzhou, China) and APEX BRANDS INC. (Apex, N.C.).

"Chuck with slip protection" was invented by Jichun Zhou (Suzhou, China), Tingwei Zeng (Suzhou, China) and Michael C. Goodson (Belton, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chuck is provided for use with a powered driver having a rotatable drive shaft. The chuck includes a plurality of jaws movably disposed in passageways of a cylindrical body, a nut rotatably mounted about the body and in communication with the jaws such that rotation of the nut in a closing direction moves the jaws toward eac...