US Patent Issued to Andreas Stihl on July 29 for "Drive link for a sawchain, and an arrangement of a plurality of drive links for a sawchain" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,715, issued on July 29, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Drive link for a sawchain, and an arrangement of a plurality of drive links for a sawchain" was invented by Tobias Grams (Waiblingen, Germany), Juergen Maerz (Heubach-Lautern, Germany), Wolfgang Kienzle (Remseck, Germany), Maureen Wittig (Stuttgart, Germany), Marius Freitag (Wil, Switzerland) and Marco Kewes (Jonschwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive link for a sawchain is disclosed wherein the drive link has a top side which faces away from an opening plane defined by the respective axes of the rivet openings and extends at ...