US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 9 for "Anti-kickback feature for power tools" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,619, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Anti-kickback feature for power tools" was invented by Mahesh Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.) and Krishna Chaitanya Palle Hayagreeva (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to kickback detection for devices, such as handheld drills. Kickback is detected using a gyroscope and an accelerometer, and is detected at the end of each of a plurality of time windows. At the end of each time window, kickback is detected based on, for example, a variance of a norm of gyroscope measurements. False kickback detections a...