ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,109, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Driving-in apparatus" was invented by Emanuel Kurth (Chur, Switzerland), Alain Erni (Wil, Switzerland), Fabio Luongo (Wil, Switzerland) and Michael Pulfer (Wil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus driving fastening elements has an energy store, a transmission element movable along a setting axis in a driving direction between a starting position and a setting position for transmitting energy from the energy store to the fastening elements, the transmission element having a rear end in the driving direction, the energy store having a contain...