US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Feb. 17 for "Hard hat face shield attachment system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,963, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Hard hat face shield attachment system" was invented by Todd Andrew Zeilinger (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Nicole Z. Summersett (Milwaukee), Christian R. Braun (Milwaukee) and Samuel L. Lombardi (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various face shield assemblies for hard hats are described. In one embodiment, the face shield assembly includes a hard hat, a mounting bracket, a face shield, a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The first pivot arm and second pivot arm are pivotally coupled to the hard hat and rotate with respect to the mounting br...