ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,848, issued on April 29, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Handheld tool" was invented by Kazuya Mochizuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld tool includes a magazine accommodating a plurality of fasteners coupled by a coupling band, a lid portion opening and closing the magazine, a nose portion having an injection passage and an injection port, a supply passage connecting the injection passage and the magazine for feeding the fasteners coupled by the coupling band to the injection passage; and a driver bit separating the fasteners of the injection passage from the coupling band driving the fasteners toward the inje...