US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on July 1 for "Power tool accessories for cutting elongated members" (Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,892, issued on July 1, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Power tool accessories for cutting elongated members" was invented by Darren B. Moss (York, Pa.), Marco Lourenco (Baltimore), Thomas R. Kaye Jr. (Fallston, Md.) and James Batterden (Timonium, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool accessory includes a housing having a rear end portion and front end portion; an input shaft at least partially received in the rear end portion, extending along an axis, and configured to be coupled to a tool holder of a rotary power tool; a threaded shaft received in the housing and rotationally driven by the input s...