US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Feb. 17 for "Flywheel driven fastening tool having at least two timeout periods for determining when to stop driving flywheel" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,998, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Flywheel driven fastening tool having at least two timeout periods for determining when to stop driving flywheel" was invented by Daniel Hegarty (Baltimore), Michael Justis (Towson, Md.), Jongsoo Lim (Timomium, Md.), Jim Schroeder (Dallastown, Pa.) and Larry E. Gregory (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a flywheel driven fastening tool that keeps the flywheel active at or near a ready-to-fire state, for a defined period of time without the continuous user input into the trigger switch or contact trip. The controller controls two...