ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,956, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Power tool wake up" was invented by Daniel W. Medeiros (Brookfield, Wis.) and Vivek Anand (Brookfield, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool including a housing, and a motor drive circuit coupled to a motor. The power tool further includes a motor controller coupled to the motor drive circuit. The motor control circuit is configured to detect an input received from a sensor and determine whether the detected input exceeds a predetermined value. The motor control circuit is also configured to determine whether the power tool is in a s...