ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,668, issued on March 25, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Method for operating a gardening appliance, and gardening appliance" was invented by Markus Kippes (Brannenburg, Germany), Ingo Kugler (Waiblingen, Germany) and Tobias Froehlich (Marbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gardening appliance has a traction drive system with a clutch, an electric motor drive system and a user-triggerable signalling device. The electric motor drive system effects forward rotation and backward rotation of the clutch. An operating method includes: a) in a user-triggered manner, operating the electric motor ...