US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on July 15 for "Easy hole start operation for drilling power tools" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,686, issued on July 15, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Easy hole start operation for drilling power tools" was invented by Woodrow W. Walker (Milwaukee), Jonathan E. Schmitz (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Andrew T. Medeiros-Nicholson (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Bharat C. Nakum (Germantown, Wis.) and Brittany Ann Sellnow (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool, such as a drilling power tool, configured to perform an easy hole start operation upon actuation of a trigger. When the trigger is actuated, the motor is driven at a low speed value. The motor speed is increased to a second speed value during a pre...