ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,703, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Hand-held power tool" was invented by Marcus Schuller (Dettenhausen, Germany), Rainer Britz (Schorndorf, Germany) and Simon Erbele (Nufringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held power tool includes a housing, a drive motor, an intermediate shaft that can be driven by the drive motor, and a percussion mechanism. The percussion mechanism has a striker and at least one percussion mechanism spring which is connected to the striker in a rotationally fixed manner, and the percussion mechanism can be driven at least in part by the intermediate sha...