ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,537, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HUSQVARNA AB (Huskvarna, Sweden).
"Tool detection in hand-held power tools" was invented by Martin Larsen (Jonkoping, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held multi-tool device (100) comprising a driving unit (105) and being arranged to carry one of a plurality of replaceable tool heads (150) to be driven by the driving unit (105), the hand-held multi-tool device (100) further comprising a controller (101) configured to: determine a baseline inertial characteristic of the tool head currently being driven by the driving unit; determine an active inertial characteristic of said tool he...