ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,600, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Power tool" was invented by Takafumi Kotsuji (Anjo, Japan), Shin Nakamura (Anjo, Japan), Akira Mizutani (Anjo, Japan), Masatoshi Nakahama (Anjo, Japan) and Yoshihiro Ozeki (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes a motor, a spindle, an inner housing, an outer housing formed by an upper member and a lower member, a pair of interposing members and a pair of elastic members. The interposing members are arranged leftward and rightward of the inner housing, respectively, and fixedly connected to a first member, which is one of the upper member an...