US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on Oct. 20 for "Pex expansion tool" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,585, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Pex expansion tool" was invented by James Wekwert (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Jacob Lindsey (Milwaukee), Peter J. Davies (Milwaukee), Justin Miller (Richfield, Wis.), Andrew J. Smith (Waukesha, Wis.), Troy C. Thorson (Cedarburg, Wis.), Ryan J. Denissen (Sussex, Wis.) and John S. Scott (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expansion tool includes a housing, a motor supported by the housing and including a motor, a mandrel, and a drive mechanism configured to convert a rotational input from a motor shaft into translational movement of th...