ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,252, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).
"Electrostatic clutch for power tool" was invented by Geoffrey S. Howard (Columbia, Md.), Matthew J. Lazzaro (Forest Hill, Md.), Tal Gottesman (Lutherville, Md.), Thomas Streett (Fallston, Md.), Daniel L. Schwarz (Timonium, Md.), Parth Amrapurkar (Owings Mills, Md.), Scott M. Rudolph (Aberdeen, Md.) and Kristian Brian Sims (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes an electrostatic clutch assembly disposed between a motor and an end effector. A control circuit causes a first voltage to be applied to a first electrode of the electr...