US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Aug. 5 for "String trimmer assembly and trimmer head for use with same" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,515, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"String trimmer assembly and trimmer head for use with same" was invented by Beth E. Cholst (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A string trimmer assembly includes a trimmer head rotatably driven by a drive shaft and defining a cavity, a spool supported in the cavity of the trimmer head and operable to support line to be dispensed, which is dispensable though an opening in the trimmer head, and a bump protruding from a distal end of the trimmer head. The bump includes a wear surface on a terminating end of the bump, and the wear surface...