ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,841, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Adapters for communication between power tools" was invented by Matthew Post (Milwaukee), Kellen Carey (Portland, Ore.), Gareth Mueckl (Milwaukee), Jeremy R. Ebner (East Troy, Wis.) and Tauhira Hoossainy (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a power tool in control of a vacuum. In response to activation input, the power tool controls a motor for driving power tool operation and wirelessly transmits a control signal to a vacuum. In response to receiving the control signal, the vacuum controls a motor fo...