ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,080, issued on July 22, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Electric work machine" was invented by Makoto Chikaraishi (Anjo, Japan) and Akihiro Hozumi (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work machine avoids lowering the visibility of a workpiece by an operator. An electric work machine includes a motor, an output unit operable with a rotational force from the motor, a light emitter at least partially surrounding the output unit, an optical member including an outer cylinder located radially outward from the light emitter, and a light transmitter located frontward from the light emitter to allow light emit...