ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,869, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Hand-held electric tool" was invented by Jie Liu (Dongguan, China), Zhigang Peng (Dongguan, China), Hua Fan (Dongguan, China), Wai Chung Lee (Hong Kong) and Kar Tat Wong (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a hand-held electric tool comprising a housing and an operating component. The housing has a main body section and a grip section extending from the rear side of the main body section, and the front end of the main body section is provided with a mounting interface. The operating component is mounted at the mountin...