US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on Sept. 15 for "Impacting ratchet tool with multiple operating modes" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,650, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Impacting ratchet tool with multiple operating modes" was invented by Braden A. Roberts (Brookfield, Wis.), Jacob P. Schneider (Cedarburg, Wis.), Ethan McKenzie (Brookfield, Wis.) and Kyle Alvares (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool including a housing, a motor having an output shaft rotatable about a first axis, and an impact mechanism. The impact mechanism includes a camshaft, an anvil, and a hammer configured to reciprocate along the camshaft to impart rotational impacts to the anvil in a first operating mode an...