ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,055, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HYDAC FLUIDTECHNIK GMBH (Sulzbach/Saar, Germany).

"System for braking a displacement-controlled drive system" was invented by Michael Scheidt (Sulzbach, Germany), Frank Schulz (Blieskastel-Bierbach, Germany), Christian Stauch (Schwalbach, Germany) and Timo Ringle (Quierschied, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is for braking a hydraulic working cylinder which is configured to be driven, for a motion, by an inflow pressure at an inflow end of the hydraulic working cylinder and an outflow pressure at an outflow end of the hydraulic working cylinder. The hydraulic working cylinder ha...