US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on June 30 for "Kickback control methods for a power tool including a force sensor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,245, issued on June 30, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Kickback control methods for a power tool including a force sensor" was invented by Maxwell L. Merget (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Jessie L. Bernitt (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool including a housing, a motor having a rotor and a stator, at least one grip sensor configured to generate a grip parameter, and a switching network electrically coupled to the brushless DC motor. An electronic processor is connected to the switching network and the at least one grip sensor and configured to implement kickback control of the power ...