ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,654, issued on April 29, was assigned to Festool GmbH (Wendlingen, Germany).
"Switch for a hand-held power tool" was invented by Martin Fuchs (Lorch, Germany) and Philipp Huggenberger (Munningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch (30) for a hand-held power tool (10) or as a component of a hand-held power tool (10), which has an electric drive motor (16) that can be switched by the switch (30). The switch (30) has a switch housing (33) with a switch chamber (35) in which a switch actuator (75) that can be moved between at least two switch positions (ML, MR) is arranged in order to actuate an electric switch element, said ...