ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,088, issued on March 4, was assigned to BeA GmbH (Ahrensburg, Germany).
"Compressed air nail gun with a safety device" was invented by Joachim Bauer (Bad Oldesloe, Germany) and Martin Theberath (Tangstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pneumatic nailer having a working piston and a common actuation that is configured to trigger a drive-in process which has a control volume and which is designed to automatically undertake a safety measure when a pressure threshold in the control volume is exceeded or not met. The control volume is ventilated or vented via a throttle such that a delay time, after the...