US Patent Issued to Hilti on Nov. 4 for "Power tool having a disk-shaped tool and a guard plate for protecting against flying sparks" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,079, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Power tool having a disk-shaped tool and a guard plate for protecting against flying sparks" was invented by Georg Holzmeier (Martkoffingen, Germany) and Roland Meuer (Ettringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool having a disk-shaped tool and a guard plate in order to protect the power tool from flying sparks. The guard plate here has devices for supporting a secure standing position of the power tool, wherein the devices include an elastic material and can be preassembled on tabs of the guard plate. An assembly and a method for rapidly mountin...