ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,232, issued on May 6, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Portable power supply" was invented by Mahesh M. Swamy (Gurnee, Ill.), Omid H. Shirazi (Brookfield, Wis.), Matthew R. Polakowski (Greenfield, Wis.), Nathan J. Gustafson (Milwaukee), Paul C. Chao (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Samantha L. Billetdeaux (Mukwonago, Wis.), Michael R. Halverson (Greenfield, Wis.), Benjamin C. Tesch (Milwaukee), Chun Jian Tang (Sussex, Wis.), Michael A. Matthews (Milwaukee), James Dykstra (Milwaukee), Brian M. Hockers (Nashotah, Wis.), Catherine Kelli Semon (Milwaukee) and Andrew S. Lentz (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademar...