US Patent Issued to HILTI on Oct. 28 for "Driving-in device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,042, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HILTI AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Driving-in device" was invented by Wolfram Schwertner (Werdenberg, Switzerland) and Dionys Schalbetter (Haag, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for driving a fastening element into a base material, comprising a power unit and a driving element which is provided driven by the power unit in a driving direction from a starting position into a setting position to drive a fastening element into the base material; a braking element with a contact surface which defines the setting position of the driving element and against which the driving ele...