US Patent Issued to Penn Engineering & Manufacturing on April 7 for "Rotary installation tools for clinch fasteners" (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,652, issued on April 7, was assigned to Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp. (Danboro, Pa.).

"Rotary installation tools for clinch fasteners" was invented by Michael Maloney (Doylestown, Pa.), Kristina Valko (Pipersville, Pa.), Jonathan Olson (Harleysville, Pa.), Brian Bentrim (Furlong, Pa.), Qiang Sun (Novi, Mich.), Ronald Dise (Perkasie, Pa.) and KEnt Johnston (White Salmon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tooling is held within the nose of a rotary punch and as the tool is rotated and forced against a workpiece a fastener within the tool becomes affixed to the workpiece. The tools have displacers which non-destructively def...