ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,498, issued on June 24, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Method for operating a hand-guided processing device, and hand-guided processing device" was invented by Alexander Haas (Spraitbach, Germany), Edgar Mueller (Ebersbach an der Fils, Germany) and Christian Nemec (Duernau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a hand-guided processing device that has a rotating and/or circulating cutting tool, an electric motor drive system wherein the electric motor drive system is configured for generating a torque for driving the cutting tool, and a user-operable control eleme...