US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Aug. 5 for "Auxiliary energy circuit for battery-powered power tool" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,414, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Auxiliary energy circuit for battery-powered power tool" was invented by William Varian (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Aditya Subramanian (Milwaukee), Ryan B. Jipp (Brookfield, Wis.) and Samuel Sheeks (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool comprising a power tool housing, an auxiliary power source, a user input for user control of power tool operation, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a control signal from the user input, control the power tool in response to the control signal, receive, from a sensor, a ...