By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week — From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Moore, Stephen P. Palatine, IL; Weinger, Murray Z. Johnsburg, IL; Birk, Daniel J. McHenry, IL; Zhao, Hanxin Northbrook, IL; Segura, Ricardo Lake in the Hills, IL; Francis, Ryan L. Palatine, IL, filed on October 9, 2013, was made available online on May 1, 2014.The patent’s assignee is Illinois Tool Works Inc.News editors 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 new and improved fastener-driving tool having a trigger control mechanism that is capable of providing multiple actuation modes without the need to manually adjust the tool.(…)
