ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,500, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Festool GmbH (Wendlingen, Germany).

"Electric tool, method, assembly, computer program product, and computer readable medium" was invented by Michael Thuringer (GroBbettlingen, Germany), Alexander Furst (Donzdorf, Germany), Patrick Schnelle (Ostfildern, Germany), Tobias Hofmann (Kirchheim, Germany) and Michal Calta (Ceska Lipa, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, for example a polishing device, a grinding device and/or a sawing device, with a tool, an electric motor for driving the tool and a control unit for controlling the electric m...