US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 22 for "Distributed pump architecture for multifunctional machines" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,053, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Distributed pump architecture for multifunctional machines" was invented by Rohit Saha (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to distributed pump architectures used in control systems for multifunctional machines. In some cases, a control system for a multifunctional machine includes three or more control circuits. At least two of the control circuits each has a hydraulic fluid pump and each of the pumps is controlled by a different control circuit. At least two of the hydraulic fluid pump h...