US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Feb. 10 for "Rotary hammer including mode-based motor direction control" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,897, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Rotary hammer including mode-based motor direction control" was invented by Joshua D. Widder (Grafton, Wis.) and Kyle Krause (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary hammer operable in a plurality of modes in which reciprocating of a tool bit along a drive axis and/or rotation of the tool bit about the drive axis occurs. The rotary hammer includes a trigger, a mode switch, a motor direction switch, and a control unit. The trigger is movable between off and on positions. The mode switch selects a mode of operation between first and sec...