ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,548, issued on April 14, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Power tool including configurable motor stator windings" was invented by Zachary G. Stanke (Wausau, Wis.) and Gareth Mueckl (Milwaukee).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool that includes an electric motor. The electric motor includes a plurality of stator windings, a plurality of switches for selectively coupling the plurality of stator windings in a first configuration or a second configuration, and a controller connected to the plurality of switches. The controller is configured to control the plurality of switches to configure the pl...