ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,883, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BASSO INDUSTRY CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Electrically-driven tool and method for an electrically-driven tool to detect battery decline" was invented by Cheng-En Tsai (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chong-Kun Hong (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for an electrically-driven tool to detect battery decline. The electrically-driven tool includes a battery, a controller and a kinetic device. The controller pre-stores a dataset of energy provision time including a data piece of energy provision time that signifies a predetermined time length presumed to be required by the ...