US Patent Issued to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL on March 18 for "Torque stick for a rotary impact tool" (Wisconsin, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,801, issued on March 18, was assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Torque stick for a rotary impact tool" was invented by Jonathan E. Abbott (Wilmington, Del.), Jacob P. Schneider (Cedarburg, Wis.), Peter Malak (Waukesha, Wis.) and Christopher S. Hoppe (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a rotary impact tool includes activating a motor to provide torque to a drive assembly, providing rotational impacts to a torque stick coupled to an anvil of the drive assembly in response to a reaction torque on the drive assembly exceeding a threshold value, and sensing a position of the anvil...