ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,042, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Buildz LLC (Forest City, N.C.).

"Nail gun and methods for sequentially driving nails into a substrate or a structure" was invented by Mark Joseph Bellissimo (Wellington, Fla.), Stanley Clark Beard Jr. (Hendersonville, N.C.), Caleb Robert Boothe (Inman, S.C.), Zachary Tarshel Peek (Shelby, N.C.), Robert Charles McNaughton (Forest City, N.C.) and Robert James Hellner (Zirconia, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nail gun for repeatedly driving nails into a substrate includes a drive assembly having a longitudinal axis, a feed head assembly attached to the drive assembly and configured to provi...