US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on June 17 for "Cut-off saw including forward and reverse blade rotation" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,225, issued on June 17, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Cut-off saw including forward and reverse blade rotation" was invented by Terry Timmons Jr. (Oconomowoc, Wis.), Jonathan Schmitz (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Helton Vandenbush (Belgium, Wis.) and Andrew T. Medeiros-Nicholson (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes a housing, a motor located within the housing, a drive assembly located within the housing and connected to an output of the motor, at least one cutting wheel coupled to the drive assembly, and at least one switch configured to control activation of the motor for d...