ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,368, issued on June 3, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).
"Ride control for work machines" was invented by Roger D. Lowman (Simpsonville, S.C.), Chad Anthony Larish (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen Smith (Nordborg, Denmark) and Sam Newbauer (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic system can include a hydraulic actuator including a piston rod slidably disposed within a housing having a base-side port and a rod-side port, a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic reservoir, an accumulator, a first control valve operable to selectively control flow from the pump to the base-side port and from the base-side port to the re...