ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,641, issued on June 24, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Rebar tying tool" was invented by Yuta Asakura (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rebar tying tool ties together two or more rebars using a wire. The rebar tying tool may include: a reel comprising the wire wound on a bobbin; a reel-holding part configured to hold the reel in a rotatable manner; a feed part configured to advance the wire from the reel by a number of turns of the wire around the rebars; and a twisting part configured to twist the wire after the number of turns of the wire has been wound around the rebars. The wire preferably has a maximum ...