US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Sept. 1 for "Mode selection of a power tool" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,271, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Mode selection of a power tool" was invented by Jonathan E. Abbott (Milwaukee) and James N. Moran (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods described herein provide for controlling an operating mode of a power tool. Controlling the power tool includes operating, by a motor controller, a motor of the power tool in a first operating mode. Controlling the power tool also includes detecting, by the motor controller, a position of a forward-reverse selector of the power tool, and receiving, by the motor controller, a signa...