By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — From Alexandria, Virginia, VerticalNews journalists report that a patent by the inventors Segura, Ricardo (Lake in the Hills, IL); Francis, Ryan (Palatine, IL), filed on May 6, 2011, was published online on May 27, 2014.
The patent’s assignee for patent number 8733608 is Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, IL).
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The present invention relates generally to fastener-driving tools used to drive fasteners into workpieces, such tools typically being powered by combustion, pneumatics, electricity, powder activated or by other sources, and more particularly to fastener magazines for such tools.(…)
