ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,280, issued on June 3, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Power tool profile sharing and permissions" was invented by Stephen Matson (Milwaukee) and Christian Coulis (Sussex, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for programming a power tool from an external device. The method includes establishing a first communication link with a server. The server includes a profile bank that includes mode profiles generated by a plurality of users. The method further includes receiving, over the first communication link, a list of mode profiles representing a subset of the mode profiles of the profil...