US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Oct. 6 for "Maximum power tool startup torque" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,413, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Maximum power tool startup torque" was invented by Timothy R. Obermann (Waukesha, Wis.), Douglas R. Fieldbinder (Greendale, Wis.), Ian A. Duncan (Colgate, Wis.) and Robert Turney (Watertown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool including a housing, an input, a gear train, a motor at least partially supported by the housing and coupled to the gear train, and a controller including a processor and a memory. The controller is coupled to the input and the motor and is configured to receive an input signal from the input, determine an oper...