US Patent Issued to NCTE on Sept. 15 for "Electric hand tool with torque sensor and certification system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,649, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NCTE AG (Oberhaching, Germany).

"Electric hand tool with torque sensor and certification system" was invented by Jurgen Uebbing (Munich), Bernhard Mayr (Munich) and Verena Graf (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric hand tool has a driving unit for driving a shaft of the electric hand tool and configured to drive, via the shaft, a socket of the electric hand tool or a socket connectable to the electric hand tool; a torque sensor for measuring a torque applied to the shaft via the driving unit; a control unit for controlling the driving unit to limit the measured torque to a predet...