ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,660, issued on April 7, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hand-held power tool, in particular router and/or trimmer" was invented by Thorsten Kuehn (Eislingen, Germany), Michael Wall (Stuttgart, Germany), Mitchell John Hubbard (Stuttgart, Germany) and Julius Schlicht (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held power tool includes a machine housing, in which an electric drive motor is arranged that is paired with an output shaft for rotatably driving an insert tool, at least one battery pack, and a support device for guiding the machine housing on a workpiece. The support device has a support se...