US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE on July 22 for "Detecting tightening tool performance deterioration" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,067, issued on July 22, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB (Stockholm).

"Detecting tightening tool performance deterioration" was invented by Staffan Aldenfalk Jansson (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method of detecting an indication of a tightening tool deteriorating in tightening performance, and a control device performing the method. In a first aspect, a method of detecting an indication of a tightening tool deteriorating in tightening performance is provided. The method comprises acquiring at least one set of observed values of a torque having been applied by the...