US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on Sept. 15 for "Blind rivet nut-setting tool" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,657, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Blind rivet nut-setting tool" was invented by Blaine Vollmer (Plover, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a blind rivet nut-setting tool includes pressing a blind rivet nut on an output shaft of the tool against a workpiece, thereby applying an external force to the output shaft to move the output shaft in a rearward direction along a longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, activating a first motor to rotate the output shaft about the longitudinal axis in response to the output shaft activating a li...