ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,578, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Greenworks (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd (Changzhou, China).
"Earth auger" was invented by Fei Huang (Jiangsu, China), Zhikun Wang (Jiangsu, China), Shangyu Xi (Jiangsu, China), Bingtan Chen (Jiangsu, China) and Hexin Yang (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earth auger includes a transmission assembly arranged on a connecting base, a motor assembly connected with the transmission assembly and driving the transmission assembly to rotate, a controller arranged at a first side of the transmission assembly and connected with the motor assembly, a control knob and a plurality of indicator lights ar...