US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Oct. 14 for "Non-rotating location identification in power tools" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,080, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Non-rotating location identification in power tools" was invented by Shi-Uk Chung (Brookfield, Wis.) and Matthew R. Bailey (Racine, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool including a battery pack interface configured to receive a removable and rechargeable battery pack, a motor including a rotor and a stator, the rotor operable to rotate relative to the stator, and a switching module that includes a plurality of switching devices connected between the battery pack interface and the motor. The power tool further includes a controller i...