US Patent Issued to University of Manitoba on April 21 for "Energy recovery charging of an accumulator in a low-pressure compensation circuit of an electro-hydrostatic actuator" (Canadian, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,205, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Energy recovery charging of an accumulator in a low-pressure compensation circuit of an electro-hydrostatic actuator" was invented by Badhushan Chithravelpillai (Winnipeg, Canada), Gustavo Costa (Jaboatao dos Guararapes, Brazil), Zeljko Tomas (Winnipeg, Canada) and Nariman Sepehri (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-hydrostatic actuator having a main circuit, a charging circuit and four different operating quadrants uses return flow from the main circuit to the charging circuit to charge an accumulator of the charging circuit...