ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,979, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ADARACT TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Reno, Nev.).
"Dynamic recruitment modulation in systems utilizing variable recruitment" was invented by Joseph Hill (Reno, Nev.) and Francis Budu-Manuel (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to variable recruitment actuator systems and related methods. In one embodiment, a variable recruitment actuator system utilizes a central hydraulic pump, an accumulator, a plurality of variable recruitment actuators, and a pressurized reservoir of hydraulic fluid to provide highly efficient hydraulic regenerative energy harvesting in systems requ...