ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,569, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snap-on Inc. (Kenosha, Wis.).
"Tool brownout management" was invented by Jason S. Genz (Greendale, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motorized hand tool, such as a cordless ratchet wrench, that has a motor, one or more electronic components and/or integrated circuits, and a step-up converter that are housed or disposed in a housing of the tool. The step-up converter is adapted to prevent a voltage of a battery of the tool from dropping below a threshold voltage of a component or integrated circuit when current draw from the battery increases, thus preventing a "brownout" condition."
The pa...