US Patent Issued to Techtronic Cordless GP on March 17 for "Powered fastener driver with button cap delivery" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,490, issued on March 17, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Powered fastener driver with button cap delivery" was invented by Scott A. Sutherland (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered fastener driver includes a housing, a nosepiece, a driver blade movable within the nosepiece between a ready position and a driven position, a piston coupled to the driver blade, a driver cylinder within which the piston is movable, a storage chamber cylinder containing pressurized gas therein and in fluid communication with the driver cylinder, a lifting mechanism for moving the driver blade to the ready pos...