ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,784, issued on June 2, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric power tool" was invented by Kozo Iwaki (Tokyo), Norihiro Nagai (Tokyo) and Takahiro Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electric power tool including: an electric motor; a first battery; a second battery; a first controller configured to control the electric motor at a first operating voltage supplied based on a first power supply voltage supplied from the first battery; a communication device; and a second controller configured to control the communication device at a second operating voltage supplied based on the first power suppl...