ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,307, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Chuck for a wire driver" was invented by Robert W. Childers (Trinity, Fla.), Aman Deep Mathur (Rajasthan, India) and Ankur Bhagat (Uttarakhand, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chuck (10) includes a jaw guide (64), interleaving jaws (66), and an inclined engagement surface (84). The jaw guide defines a longitudinal axis (24) and includes jaw channels (65) circumferentially distributed about the axis. The jaws are slidably disposed in the jaw channels Each jaw has a clamping surface (88) facing the axis and a driving surface (90) substantially opposite the cl...