ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,450, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Method for operating a hand-guided processing device and processing system" was invented by Michael Reitter (Woergl, Austria) and Domenik Fuchs (Kirchbichl, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a hand-guided processing device having a user-activated operating sensor device with a plurality of different detection positions. The method involves the steps: a) detecting a sequence of activations of the operating sensor device at different detection positions of the plurality of detection positions, and b) when the detected sequen...