US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on Jan. 20 for "Electric motor for a power tool" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,456, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Electric motor for a power tool" was invented by Jeffrey C. Hessenberger (Neosho, Wis.), Michael Kolden (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Andrew T. Beyerl (Pewaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brushless DC motor for use with a power tool includes a stator surrounding a rotor, an output shaft with first and second ends that is fixed to the rotor to transmit movement of the rotor to the output shaft, first and second bearings positioned on the output shaft adjacent the first and second ends, a fan coupled to the output shaft between the first and ...