ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,777, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Magazine for a nailing device, such as a portable nailer and nailing device therefor" was invented by Jean-Luc Simonin (Barcelonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secondary magazine for a nailing device, such as a portable nailer, adapted to be connected to a main magazine of nails. More particularly, a main housing of the main magazine and a secondary housing of the secondary magazine respectively have a first longitudinal axis of symmetry and a second longitudinal axis of symmetry, transverse such as substantially perpendicular to each othe...