ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,184, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Metabowerke GmbH (Nuertingen, Germany).
"Restart protection device" was invented by Frank Matheis (Reichenbach, Germany) and Tobias Beck (Neuffen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a restart protection device (1) for a battery-powered electric hand tool (2), comprising-a control capacitor (CCTRL) having a cathode and an anode, wherein the cathode can be connected to an earth connection (10) of the electric hand tool (2) and the anode can be connected via a battery pack interface (4) of the electric hand tool (2) to a connector wire (6) of a battery pack (3) of the el...