ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,336, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EMERSON PROFESSIONAL TOOLS LLC (Elyria, Ohio).
"Hand-held conduit bending tool with multiple bending channels" was invented by John Wayne Kroening (Machesney Park, Ill.), Sachin Shashikant Dakare (Pune, India), Andrew Francis Troy (Chicago), Katey Earley (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Rahul Maruti Nanche (Kolhapur, India), Jae Kwang Lee (Rockford, Ill.) and John Hagan (Roscoe, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held conduit bending tool includes an elongated handle and a bender head disposed on the handle. The bender head comprising a body portion having at least one curved channel therein. In a...