US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Additively manufactured hydraulic valve components" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,772, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Additively manufactured hydraulic valve components" was invented by Kevin L. Martin (Washburn, Ill.), Paul A. Zwart (Dunlap, Ill.), Michael Charles Marstall (Peoria, Ill.), Mikhail A. Sorokin (Naperville, Ill.) and Lonnie James Devier (Channahon, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a hydraulic valve component using additive manufacturing includes laying successive layers to form a flow aperture for a hydraulic valve component, and creating a lattice or mesh structure that at least partially defines the flow aperture of the hydraulic va...