By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week — According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews journalists, a patent application by the inventor Segura, Ricardo (Lake in the Hills, IL), filed on March 11, 2013, was made available online on September 18, 2014.
The assignee for this patent application is Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The present disclosure relates generally to powered, fastener-driving tools, wherein the tools may be electrically powered, pneumatically powered, combustion powered, or powder activated, and more particularly to a lockout mechanism for a fastener-driving tool that prevents actuation of the tool when there are no fasteners remaining in a collation in the tool magazine.(…)
