ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,907, issued on June 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Hand-held power tool" was invented by Tobias Herr (Stuttgart, Germany), Jens Blum (Filderstadt, Germany) and Simon Erbele (Nufringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held power tool includes a drive unit actuatable via at least one manual switch, a control unit at least for controlling the drive unit, the control unit having a control-unit housing. The power tool further includes at least one user interface having at least one operating element, and a housing that at least partially accommodates the control unit and the user interface. The ha...