ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,801, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Handheld, portable work apparatus" was invented by Marcel Witt (Alfdorf, Germany) and Alexander Scheel (Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld, portable work apparatus includes a housing defining an interior space, a drive motor arranged in the housing for driving a tool, a brake device assigned to the tool, a hand guard, and a switching unit which is arranged in the interior space of the housing for detecting the position of the brake device. The hand guard is arranged outside the housing and has an actuation cont...