ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,980, issued on March 31, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Hand tool with slip resistant tip" was invented by Honesto D. Camposagrado (West Allis, Wis.) and Clinton L. Cull (Hartland, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool, such as a pry bar including a textured tip is shown. In one embodiment, the textured tip includes a plurality of projections and a plurality of grooves. Various textured tip embodiments are configured to increase friction/gripping with a workpiece, thereby increasing a pry force applied to the workpiece before the pry bar slips and/or loses contact with the workpiece."
The pa...