US Patent Issued to Hilti on Aug. 12 for "Hook assembly for power tool" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,014, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Hook assembly for power tool" was invented by Mengan Gong (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), Mike Yang (Shanghai), Evan Zhou (Shanghai) and Elin Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hook assembly for a power tool includes a connection shaft having a first end and a second end opposite each other. The first end of the connection shaft is connectable to a housing of the power tool, the second end is connected to a hook member, and the hook member has a handle part and a hook part extending from the handle part. The hook member has a first position and a s...