US Patent Issued to Ashley Harwood on Sept. 30 for "Handle system with storage for woodworking tools" (North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,643, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ashley Harwood LLC (Charleston, S.C.).

"Handle system with storage for woodworking tools" was invented by Ashley Harwood (Charleston, S.C.), Donald Martin Zierold (Cleveland, Tenn.) and James Lawrence Lytle Jr. (Fletcher, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is for a handle system for a woodworking tool to allow both the safe stowage of a woodworking tool and the operational use of the woodworking tool. A handle configured with a first collet receiver and a second collet receiver interconnected at either end of a generally hollow longitudinal handle. The collet receivers ...