ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,768, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fiskars Finland Oy Ab (Espoo, Finland).
"Tree pruner" was invented by Mikko Heine (Espoo, Finland), Niko Rusanen (Espoo, Finland), Erkki Seppalainen (Kauniainen, Finland), Pekka Lemmetyinen (Salo, Finland) and Thomas Nyholm (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tree pruner includes a pruner body, a blade system, and an electric motor to provide driving power for the blade system. Rotation of the electric motor in a first direction provides a cutting action. A control system controls the electric motor, and a transmission system having a transmission rope transfers power from the electric mot...