ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,766, issued on April 7, was assigned to JIANGSU DONGCHENG TOOLS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Nantong, China).

"Anti-sparking method for power tool, and control device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Jin Zhang (Nantong, China) and Haojie Fan (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-sparking method for a power tool includes the following steps: (1) turning on a controlling switch, which causes a motor to rotate, and a MCU module to record a first operation state of the motor; (2) turning off the controlling switch which causes the motor begin to stop rotating and the MCU module to record a time duration from...