US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Sept. 15 for "Pipe wrench" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,667, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Pipe wrench" was invented by Cheng Zhang Li (Sussex, Wis.), Scott M. Hangartner (Hartland, Wis.), Andrew G. Wagner (Lisbon, Wis.) and Brian J. Doyle (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrench includes a body having a head and a handle portion defining a longitudinal axis. The wrench includes a first jaw coupled to the head with the first jaw including first teeth and an edge. The edge defines a width of the first jaw. The wrench includes a second jaw extending through an aperture of the head with the second jaw including a thre...