US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Sept. 16 for "Inflator having an outlet rotatable relative to a handle" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,300, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Inflator having an outlet rotatable relative to a handle" was invented by Darren B. Moss (York, Pa.), Ashok Samuel Baskar (Glen Arm, Md.), Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko (Baldwin, Md.) and Tyler M. Knight (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inflator includes a housing, a handle formed by the housing, a motor housed in the housing, a trigger configured to activate the motor, an inlet having an inlet axis that is generally parallel or concentric with a longitudinal axis of the motor, an outlet which is transverse to the inlet and a fan config...