US Patent Issued to MAKITA on June 23 for "Working machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,817, issued on June 23, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Working machine" was invented by Kazuya Kato (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working machine may include a working unit, a prime mover configured to drive the working unit, a housing that supports the working unit and houses the prime mover, a trigger lever extending through a through hole defined in the housing so as to be located inside and outside the housing and configured to be manipulated by a user, a sensor configured to detect a movement of the trigger lever, and a control unit configured to control the prime mover based on a detection result b...