ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,316, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Fiskars Finland Oy Ab (Espoo, Finland).
"Pruner" was invented by Niko Rusanen (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Heine (Espoo, Finland), Erkki Seppalainen (Kauniainen, Finland) and Thomas Nyholm (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pruner includes a pruner body, a cutting system, an electric motor to provide driving power for the cutting system. Rotation of the electric motor in a first direction is provides a cutting action. A control system is provided for controlling the electric motor. The pruner further includes a blade stuck detection system to detect a blade stuck situation in which the cutti...