US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Sept. 1 for "Tool with hydraulic system for regenerative extension and two-speed operation" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,270, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Tool with hydraulic system for regenerative extension and two-speed operation" was invented by James G. Ballard (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a hydraulic tool including a hydraulic actuator cylinder, a piston, a fluid reservoir, a pump, a regeneration check valve, and a pilot-operated valve. The regeneration check valve is disposed in a regenerative extension fluid path that fluidly couples a first and second chamber of the hydraulic actuator cylinder. The pilot-operated valve is disposed in...