US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on July 29 for "Power tool motor control system and method" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,665, issued on July 29, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Power tool motor control system and method" was invented by Alex R. Kuhls (Brookfield, Wis.) and Daniel W. Ruppert (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method of operating a power tool. The method includes measuring a battery current draw, sampling the battery current draw to generate a plurality of battery current samples, calculating an averaged current value by averaging the plurality of battery current samples, and comparing the averaged current value with a predetermined curren...