US Patent Issued to Morrison Timing Screw on May 13 for "Coated driver and method of forming" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,874, issued on May 13, was assigned to Morrison Timing Screw Co. (Glenwood, Ill.).

"Coated driver and method of forming" was invented by Nick Lynn Wilson (Downers Grove, Ill.), Ryan Finke (Chicago) and Caleb J. Knepper (Dyer, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver for coupling a driving device and a driven device includes a core defining a plurality of corner chamfers and a casing formed on and encasing the core. The casing has a contoured perimeter surface and a variable casing thickness, and is compressible during an interference fit installation to a coupling socket to provide a non-lubricated coupling which has zero backla...