ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,253, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).
"Fastener driver" was invented by Joshua Michael Schnitzler (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Donald Conrad Branson (Kansas City, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver for non-magnetic gripping of a socketed fastener head. The driver includes a shank and two cantilever beams. Each cantilever beam has an end and a basal segment adjacent the shank opposite the end. The driver also includes a gap defined by the two cantilever beams in resting positions. The gap extends between the two cantilever beams from an open end toward the ...