US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on April 29 for "Reversion trigger for combustion-powered fastener-driving tool" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,850, issued on April 29, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Reversion trigger for combustion-powered fastener-driving tool" was invented by Daniel J. Birk (McHenry, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener-driving tool has a housing including a combustion chamber, where the combustion chamber generates combustion for driving a fastener, and a processor associated with the housing and in communication with the combustion chamber. The processor is configured to cause an initial combustion in the combustion chamber and cause a fastener to be driven when a first actuation event and a second actuation event o...