ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,610, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Devices and methods for location-dependent prioritized communication" was invented by Anthony M. Davis (Brookfield, Wis.), Johnny Lienau (Glendale, Wis.) and Joseph J. Walsh (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool and method for prioritized communication is disclosed. A power tool may include an electronic controller including a process and a memory, and a transceiver communicatively coupled to the electronic controller. The electronic controller assigns a first geographic area to a first prioritized set of communication p...