ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,361, issued on May 12, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).
"Regenerative tailgate circuit" was invented by Kevin Smith (Narvon, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural baler tailgate control system having an actuator operatively connected between the baler frame and tailgate, a pump, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit is reconfigurable between a first configuration in which the drive circuit conveys pressurized fluid by a first fluid path from the pump to the actuator to generate a first actuator drive force to move the tailgate from the closed tailgate position to an intermediate tailgate pos...