US Patent Issued to Brandt Industries Canada on Aug. 25 for "Hydrovac with safe state" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,204, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Brandt Industries Canada Ltd. (Regina, Canada).

"Hydrovac with safe state" was invented by Evrhetton Gold (Regina, Canada), Greg Thomson (Regina, Canada), John Peters (Regina, Canada) and Daniel Bonnet (Regina, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrovac is provided having, an engine, a transmission comprising a power take-off connected to a hydraulic pump, a debris tank, a vacuum hose connected to the debris tank, a boom carrying the vacuum hose, a blower operative to create a vacuum in the debris tank, a hydraulic motor connected to the blower to drive the blower, the hydraulic motor con...