ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,588, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving tool" was invented by Kousuke Moriwaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a driving tool including: a magazine configured to accommodate a connected fastener obtained by connecting a plurality of fasteners; an injection passage provided with an injection port for injecting at least one fastener of the plurality of fasteners; and a driving-out portion configured to drive out the fastener supplied to the injection passage from the injection port. The driving-out portion is configured to idle-drive without driving out the fastener from the injectio...