ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,157, issued on May 13, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"Power tool receiving different capacity battery packs" was invented by Christopher W. Shook (Bel Air, Md.), John D. Cox (Lutherville, Md.), Barak N. Gohn (Shrewsbury, Pa.), Jason K. Leh (Shrewsbury, Pa.), Wing W. Lin (Bel Air, Md.), Jason D. McKillican (Baltimore) and Marcell E. Coates (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided with a set of removable battery packs and a set of power tools each including a motor, a controller, and a battery receiving portion. For each power tool, the controller is configured to identify a type of bat...