US Patent Issued to Techtronic Cordless GP on Dec. 16 for "Die grinder with an offset gear transmission" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,682, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Die grinder with an offset gear transmission" was invented by Garrett C. Gerdes (Greenville, S.C.), Curt Austin Laugh (Anderson, S.C.) and Elton Lee Watson (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool includes a housing, a motor within the housing, a gear box operably coupled to the motor, the gear box including an input shaft that rotates about an input drive axis and an output shaft that rotates about an output drive axis, wherein the output drive axis is aligned with the input drive axis along a drive plane and offset from the input drive ...