ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,351, issued on May 20.
"Self-installing hammer drill SDS grounding rod" was invented by Paul Connelly (Turle Creek, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture for providing a self-installing hammer drill SDS-based grounding rod according to the present invention is disclosed. The grounding rod includes a shaft member having a top end and a lower end, an SDS-style slot about the top end for coupling within a chuck of a hammer drill, a set of flanges extending out from the shaft member about the lower end, and a case-hardened tip coupled to the lower end of the shaft member."
The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2022, un...