ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,782, issued on April 7, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Charger including multiple adjustable power sources" was invented by Justin Saboury (Brookfield, Wis.) and Vivek S. Nagal (Sussex, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack charger includes a housing, a plurality of battery receptacles supported by the housing each configured to receive a battery pack, a plurality of output power supplies, a plurality of charging circuits configured to transmit power from one of the plurality of output power supplies to one or more of the plurality of battery receptacles, a plurality of switches includ...