US Patent Issued to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP on April 29 for "Power tool having noise reduction features" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,544, issued on April 29, was assigned to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Power tool having noise reduction features" was invented by Ronald J. Hoffman (Iva, S.C.), Scott W. Reed (Anderson, S.C.) and Ashley B. Amick Jr. (Seneca, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool including an air inlet and an inlet muffler disposed within the air inlet, the inlet muffler comprising a plurality of inlet ports, each of the plurality of inlet ports comprising a peripheral surface defining a port aperture therethrough, at least one of the plurality of inlet ports further comprising a damper material provided on the peripheral surfac...