US Patent Issued to Techtronic Cordless GP on July 1 for "Charger with battery pack cooling fan" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,066, issued on July 1, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Charger with battery pack cooling fan" was invented by Ece Polat (Greenville, S.C.), Adam Zwilling (Pendleton, S.C.), Nicolas James Hanks (Anderson, S.C.), Shiyi Zhang (Anderson, S.C.), Krishna Sai Teja Kalavala (Greenville, S.C.) and John Robert Lyons (Piedmont, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charger including a vertical section including a first surface, the first surface facing a front direction and including an attachment portion configured to a receive a battery pack, and a horizontal section configured to protrude, in the front direction, fro...