US Patent Issued to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP on Sept. 1 for "Stapler lockout" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,267, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Stapler lockout" was invented by Jeremy Fedrigon (Greenville, S.C.), Thomas Evatt (Six Mile, S.C.) and Neil Wright (Anderson, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stapler includes a body; a handle coupled to the body, the handle movable between a rest position and an actuated position; a magazine configured to support a plurality of fasteners; a driver that successively drives each of the plurality of fasteners into a workpiece in response to the handle moving to the activated position; and an advancer that moves the plurality of fasteners towards the ...