US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Oct. 27 for "Contactless machine drive and hand tool" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,702, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Contactless machine drive and hand tool" was invented by Beth E. Cholst (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Jonathan S. Keller (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Luis F. Gonzalez Jauregui (Milwaukee) and Jeffrey C. Hessenberger (Neosho, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine drive system is provided including a wall forming a first side fluidly separated from a second side and a machine drive device disposed at the second side. The machine drive device includes a receiver device in which a second gap is formed between the receiver device and the wall at the second...