US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Hand tool capable of switching operating direction" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,655, issued on July 29.

"Hand tool capable of switching operating direction" was invented by Chih-Ping Peng (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand tool capable of switching operating direction includes: a handgrip (10); an actuating unit (20) having an actuating seat (21) and a positioning set (25), the actuating seat (21) has an accommodating slot (221) and pivotal slots (222), the positioning set (25) has an elastic member (26) and a positioning member (27); a positioning unit (30) having latching members (31) and an elastic unit (32), the latching members (31) is pivotally connected to the pivotal slot (222) and h...