ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,010, issued on June 3, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Gas engine replacement electronics modularity for feature expansion" was invented by Patrick Dennis Gallagher (New Berlin, Wis.), Timothy James Bartlett (Waukesha, Wis.), Timothy Ryan Obermann (Waukesha, Wis.), Alex Huber (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) and William Chapman III (Delevan, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for expanding features of a gas engine replacement device that drives power equipment including controlling, by an electronic processor of the gas engine replacement device, a power switching network to selectively provide powe...