ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,623, issued on May 13.
"System and method for controlling load dependent valve flow with an overruning load" was invented by Navneet Gulati (Naperville, Ill.) and Joshua D. Zimmerman (Plainfield, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling load dependent valve flow rate in a presence of an overrunning load in a bucket includes receiving a measured pressure from and/or to a hydraulic valve, and the hydraulic valve is coupled to an actuator coupled to the bucket. The method includes calculating a load pressure on the actuator based on the measured pressure. The method includes receiving a first valve command for actuat...