ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,253, issued on July 8, was assigned to DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS GMBH & Co. OHG (Neumunster, Germany).

"Servo system bolted on design" was invented by Wilhelm Goellner (Neumunster, Germany), Andrej Babusa (Dolny Lieskov, Slovak Republic) and Heiko Laffrenzen (Ostenfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatic servo assembly unit (1) for being arranged inside, outside or distant from a variable displacement hydrostatic unit (100) and for controlling the displacement of the variable displacement hydrostatic unit (100). The servo assembly unit (1) includes a servo housing (10) in which at least one servo piston (40) is arrange...