ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,434, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHIP AND OCEAN INDUSTRIES R&D CENTER (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Tool holder" was invented by Chun-Chia Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a tool holder. Specifically, the tool holder comprises an executing end and a tool end. The executing end comprises a linear motion module and a rotating motion module. Furthermore, a first clutch and a second clutch are used for switching the operating mode therebetween the linear motion module and the rotating motion module. Hence, the present invention can provide different operating modes in a sing...