US Patent Issued to Ridge Tool on March 18 for "Variable force press tool system" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,802, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ridge Tool Co. (Elyria, Ohio).

"Variable force press tool system" was invented by Qi Zhou (Shanghai), Egbert Frenken (Heinsberg, Germany), Brendon Goede (Avon, Ohio) and Harald Krondorfer (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressing tools and jaws are described which include communication provisions that enable information concerning the jaws to be used with the press tool, to be transmitted to the tool. The press tool includes provisions that limit or otherwise tailor the output of the tool based on information concerning the jaws."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2021, under App...