ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,912, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"Impact tool with control mode" was invented by Jason K. Leh (Shrewsbury, Pa.), Karim Najjar (Baltimore), Scott M. Rudolph (Aberdeen, Md.) and Daniel White (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool includes a controller configured to control power being delivered to the and operable in one of: (a) a normal mode where the controller allows power to be delivered to the motor so that the impact mechanism transitions from operation in the rotary mode to operation in the impacting mode when an output torque exceeds a normal transition torque; ...