ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,165, issued on July 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Hydraulic systems for mobile machines and associated methods" was invented by Nicholas J. Argenziano (Otsego, Minn.), Jason W. Muir (Andover, Minn.) and Jacob M. Saari (Nowthen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile machine including: a frame; at least left and right propulsion devices on left and right sides of the mobile machine; and a hydraulic system including: a left hydraulic cylinder configured to adjust a distance between the frame and the left propulsion device, and having a rod end and a blind end; a right hydraulic cyl...