US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on April 7 for "Compact power tool data logger" (Wisconsin, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,781, issued on April 7, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Compact power tool data logger" was invented by John W. Thiele (Belgium, Wis.), Richard A. Zainer (Hubertus, Wis.), Matthew Post (Milwaukee), Gareth Mueckl (Milwaukee), Jonathan E. Abbott (Milwaukee), Matthew N. Thurin (Richfield, Wis.) and Kellen Carey (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data logger device for a power tool including a housing, a power tool interface provided at the top of the housing and configured to be received in a corresponding interface of the power tool, and a battery pack interface provided at the bottom of...