ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,681, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIZHOU DAJIANG IND. Co. LTD. (Wenling, China).

"Energy storage and striking mechanisms and nail guns having same" was invented by Tao Yang (Wenling, China), Mingjun Yang (Wenling, China), Jinquan Huang (Wenling, China), Haijun Li (Wenling, China) and Weirong Zhou (Wenling, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nail gun having an energy storage mechanism for storing energy used for striking nails out of the nail gun, the energy storage mechanism comprises a guiding rod attached to a fixed plate assembly; a piston disposed on the guiding rod; a striking member mounted on the piston for striki...