US Patent Issued to BROCHMAN INNOVATIONS on March 4 for "Tubing bender" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,032, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROCHMAN INNOVATIONS LLC (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

"Tubing bender" was invented by Todd Brochman (White Bear Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable tubing bender configured to automatically bend a portion of tubing according to a defined set of bend specifications, including a desired number of bends and a desired angle for each bend. The portable tubing bender including a driver configured to rotate a driven shaft and a first rotational output, a reductive gear set operably coupling the driven shaft to an output shaft, a bender shoe couplable to the output shaft, the bender shoe...