ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,285, issued on June 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for indicating whether a hand-held power tool has reached a target" was invented by Florian Hoelscher (Stuttgart, Germany), Heiko Roehm (Stuttgart, Germany), Simon Erbele (Nufringen, Germany) and Tobias Herr (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating whether a hand-held power tool has reached a target is disclosed. The hand-held power tool includes a drive motor and the method includes (i) activating a target reached indication mode by way of a control unit, (ii) ascertaining a shutdown reason for the drive motor, a...