ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,445, issued on May 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for learning application shutdowns by finding characteristic signal shapes" was invented by Simon Erbele (Nufringen, Germany) and Wolfgang Herberger (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for operating a handheld power tool comprising an electric motor and the method comprising: S1 providing comparative information, comprising: S1a providing at least one model signal shape, the model signal shape being assignable to progress of work of the handheld power tool; S1b providing a threshold value of corresp...