US Patent Issued to Techtronic Cordless GP on Nov. 11 for "Workpiece contact element for a powered fastener driver" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,041, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Techtronic Cordless GP (Anderson, S.C.).

"Workpiece contact element for a powered fastener driver" was invented by Adam Kane (Easley, S.C.) and Justin Moylan (Easley, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece contact element for a fastener driver includes a body defining a fastener receiving region through which fasteners are fed from a magazine of the fastener driver. The body having a base surface parallel with a fastener driving axis of the fastener driver. The workpiece contact element also includes a fastener guiding portion disposed forward of the fastener receiving region and exten...