ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,645, issued on July 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Hand-held grinding machine" was invented by Florian Esenwein (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held grinding machine includes at least one grinding device for receiving or forming a grinding means, a drive device for driving the grinding device, at least one actuating element for controlling the drive device, and a drive housing, which receives the drive device and has a longitudinal-axis portion arranged about a longitudinal axis at least substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the drive device. The dr...