ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,188, issued on June 9, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Power tool operation recording and playback" was invented by Cole A. Conrad (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Thomas G. Simeone (Milwaukee), Matthew J. Mergener (Mequon, Wis.) and Matthew P. Wycklendt (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of operating power tools. The method includes receiving a command to start a recording mode at a first electronic processor of a first power tool, and receiving at the first electronic processor, a measured parameter from a sensor of the first power tool while a first motor of the first power tool i...