US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on May 19 for "Impact tool and anvil with blind hole tool element retention" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,801, issued on May 19, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Impact tool and anvil with blind hole tool element retention" was invented by Eric M. Rusch (Jackson, Wis.), Jacob P. Schneider (Cedarburg, Wis.), Mackenzie J. Nick (Theresa, Wis.), Andrew D. Bendtsen (Oak Creek, Wis.) and Anton J. Gumina (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool includes a housing, a motor supported within the housing, an anvil extending from the housing, the anvil including a body rotatable about a longitudinal axis, a drive end portion configured to receive a tool element over a distal end thereof, a...