ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,885, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Impact tool" was invented by Jacob P. Schneider (Cedarburg, Wis.), Gerald A. Zucca (Akron, Ohio), FengKun Lu (Dongguan, China) and Guang Hu (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool includes a housing, a motor supported within the housing and having a motor shaft, a drive assembly configured to convert a continuous rotational input from the motor shaft to consecutive rotational impacts upon a workpiece, the drive assembly including a camshaft having a front portion and a rear portion defining a carrier, the rear portion bei...