ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,663, issued on July 29, was assigned to ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg).

"Method for operating a hand-guided machine tool, and hand-held machine tool" was invented by Roland Schaer (Grabs, Switzerland), Michael Wierer (Roethis, Austria) and Manuel Knobel (Ludesch, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a hand-guided machine tool. The method contains detecting at least one linear acceleration value by means of the at least one sensor apparatus (6); subtracting the gravitational acceleration from the at least one linear acceleration value to form an adjusted linear acceleration value; integrating the adjusted linear a...