ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,510, issued on April 15, was assigned to Emerson Professional Tools LLC (Elyria, Ohio).

"Charge adapter for power tools" was invented by Harald Krondorfer (Aurora, Ohio) and Naga Penmetsa (Westlake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Charge adapters for use with batteries and AC power adapters are described. Also described are systems and related methods using the charge adapters and particularly tool systems with detachable batteries."

The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2021, under Application No. 17/557,593.

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