ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,807, issued on July 8, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Universal protocol for power tools" was invented by Matthew J. Mergener (Mequon, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating between motorized power tools includes establishing, using a physical interface of a first power tool, a wireless radio link between the first power tool and a second power tool. The first power tool has a first motor and the second power tool has a second motor. A signal is received over the wireless radio link, via the physical interface, at the first power tool from the second power tool using a first ...