US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on May 27 for "Ram guide for a crimper" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,513, issued on May 27, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Ram guide for a crimper" was invented by Johnathan Ashley (Brookfield, Wis.) and Marc D'Antuono (Whitefish Bay, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a ram guide for a crimping tool. The crimping tool includes a crimping head and a ram head. The ram guide includes a track and slot. The ram guide is configured to guide the ram head within a crimp portion of the crimping head to axially align the ram head with the crimping head."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2022, under Application No. 17/733,314.

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