ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,423, issued on April 8, was assigned to Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd. (Loanhead, Great Britain).

"Controller for hydraulic apparatus" was invented by Alexis Dole (Nordborg, Denmark), Matthew Green (Nordborg, Denmark), John Hutcheson (Nordborg, Denmark), Daniel Abrahams (Nordborg, Denmark) and Niall Caldwell (Nordborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a controller for hydraulic apparatus (100). The controller is configured to determine (310) that an energy return criteria has been met by movement of a first movement component of a first hydraulic actuator. In response thereto, the controller is fu...