ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,482, issued on April 22, was assigned to Basso Industry Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Driving device for electric nail gun" was invented by An-Gi Liu (Taichung, Taiwan), Chang-Sheng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Fu-Ying Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving device for a nail gun includes a striking unit and an air storage unit. The striking unit includes a striking cylinder connected to the nail gun and defining a cylinder chamber having an opening, and a piston disposed in and making an air-tight contact with the striking cylinder. The air storage unit includes an air storage cylinder including a protrusion that ...