ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,025, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lowe's Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.).

"Ergonomic manual driver" was invented by Charles Michael Doomany (Jersey City, N.J.), Peter Eric Arnell (New York), John Eastridge (Brooklyn, N.Y.), James Edwin Moore (Las Vegas) and Richard Yang (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ergonomic manual driver includes a handle having ergonomic recesses. A manual driver includes an elongated shank and a handle. The elongated shank extends along a shank axis. The handle includes a handle body attached to the elongated shank. The handle body includes a proximal portion, a middle portion, and a distal p...