ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,332, issued on April 14, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Integrated electro-hydraulic unit" was invented by Andrea Vacca (West Lafayette, Ind.), Lizhi Shang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Shanmukh Sarode (West Lafayette, Ind.), Hassan Assaf (West Lafayette, Ind.), Enrique Busquets (Greer, S.C.) and Andreas Guender (Ramsthal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated electro-hydraulic unit including an electric machine, a hydraulic machine, and a shared casing. The electric machine includes a winding and a stator. The hydraulic machine includes a shaft, a cylinder block, a plurality of pistons, and a valv...